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Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.
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A classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, this work is one of the most well-known subterranean fictions to this day. It inspired many similar works and adaptations. First published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre, it was quickly translated to English by several different publishers in the 1870s. The current edition was based on the translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson that was published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd. in 1877.
I: The Professor and His Family
II: A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price
III: The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor
IV: The Enemy to Be Starved Into Submission
V: Famine, Then Victory, Followed by Dismay
VI: Exciting Discussions About an Unparalleled Enterprise
VII: A Woman's Courage
VIII: Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent
IX: Iceland! But What Next?
X: Interesting Conversations with Icelandic Savants
XI: A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth
XII: A Barren Land
XIII: Hospitality Under the Arctic Circle
XIV: But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
XV: Snæfells at Last
XVI: Boldly Down the Crater
XVII: Vertical Descent
XVIII: The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths
XIX: Geological Studies In Situ
XX: The First Signs of Distress
XXI: Compassion Fuses the Professor's Heart
XXII: Total Failure of Water
XXIII: Water Discovered
XXIV: Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work i' the Ground So Fast?
XXV: De Profundis
XXVI: The Worst Peril of All
XXVII: Lost in the Bowels of the Earth
XXVIII: The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery
XXIX: Thalatta! Thalatta!
XXX: A New Mare Internum
XXXI: Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery
XXXII: Wonders of the Deep
XXXIII: A Battle of Monsters
XXXIV: The Great Geyser
XXXV: An Electric Storm
XXXVI: Calm Philosophic Discussions
XXXVII: The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology
XXXVIII: The Professor in His Chair Again
XXXIX: Forest Scenery Illuminated by Electricity
XL: Preparations for Blasting a Passage to the Centre of the Earth
XLI: The Great Explosion and the Rush Down Below
XLII: Headlong Speed Upward Through the Horrors of Darkness
XLIII: Shot Out of a Volcano at Last!
XLIV: Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean
XLV: All's Well That Ends Well