Jules Verne / Author
Around the World in 80 Days
This books shows adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passerpartout. One thing about Around the World in Eighty Days, is this entire notion of taking eighty days to travel around the world.
The Master of the World
This book is about the author himself in this story, it is because he has been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extraordinary which this twentieth century...
The Mysterious Island
Five Union prisoners of war escape in a balloon from Richmond, Virginia, and land on an uninhabited island, where they begin to reconstruct society as they knew it.
Robur the Conqueror
The story begins with strange lights and sounds reported in the skies over Europe. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of a black flag atop the Eiffel Tower. These events are all the...
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth
This version of that sub-magna tale is and earlier translation and said to be the more authoritative one.
Michael Strogoff
A classic tale of adventure and intrigue in the Russian Empire. Someone must warn the Governor-General of Siberia that the fierce Feofar-Khan is pouring his men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion...
The Survivors of the Chancellor
The Survivors of the Chancellor was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales, but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Many of Jules Vernes' novels were prophetic -- and this one comes quite close to predicting today's most advanced subs. More than prophecy, the characterizations in this novel will live with you a...
Five Weeks in a Balloon
In this story, Dr. Ferguson creates a hydrogen balloon for the purpose of exploring the unknown regions of Africa.
From the Earth to the Moon
This tale set in Baltimore during the United States Civil War follows the exploits of members of an underemployed gun club who attempt to build an explosive device powerful enough to transport a man...