Review"Fictional trips to the underground are a feature of all mythologies, but the best of the nineteenth-century tales is that of Verne." --Isaac Asimov - 1966 AD When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric creatures are in abundance. But in the bowels of the earth, a shocking discovery pits the travellers face to face with their own terrifying past. Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth has been read by millions of inquisitive minds and has influenced some of the worlds most famous explorers such as Admiral Byrd, who announced on his 1926 expedition to the North Pole that "it is Jules Verne who is bringing me." And renowned cave explorer Norbert Casteret said in 1938 that A Journey to the Center of the Earth was a "marvelous book which impressed and fascinated me more than any other. I have re-read it many times, and I confess I sometimes re-read it still, each time finding anew the joys and enthusiasm of my childhood." --Engage Books, 2008 Review"In 1864 Jules Verne published 'Journey to the Center of the Earth,' the charming narrative of the adventures of a party of three, led by a German professor of mineralogy - the irascible mad-scientist type - who have lowered themselves into an extinct volcanic crater."

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Butor, Michel. Essais sur les modernes. Paris: Gallimard, 1960. Contains the important essay “Le point supreme et l‘âge d’or a travers quelques oeuvres de Jules Verne.”

Chesneaux, Jean. Jules Verne, un regard sur le monde: Nouvelles lectures politiques. Paris: Bayard, 2001.

Compere, Daniel. Un voyage imaginaire de Jules Verne : Voyage au centre de la terre. Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1977.

Fabre, Michel. Le problème et l’epreuve: Formation et modernité chez Jules Verne. Paris: Harmattan, 2004.

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