Jules Verne

Broschiertes Buch

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Beschreibung

Tells the story of distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in runes, it tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own, illuminated by an electrified gas and populated by strange, prehistoric beings.

Autor

Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905. Jane Smiley's ten works of fiction include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Moo, A Thousand Acres (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and most recently the bestselling Horse Heaven.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 71662
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780141441979
• ISBN-10: 0141441976
• Artikelnr.: 26126344