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Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828–1905) is represented here by 9 public-domain titles, including A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and All Around the Moon. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here.


Cover of The Giant Raft from Open Library

The Giant Raft

by Jules Verne

Adventure · Novel

The Giant Raft has also been incorrectly published with the title of its first part: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém, at the river's mouth.

Cover of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth from Open Library

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

by Jules Verne

Science fiction · Fantasy · Adventure

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth was first published in French, then reissued a revised and expanded edition. Professor Otto Lidenbrock is the tale's central figure, an eccentric German scientist who decodes a message from a 16th century Icelandic alchemist who claims to have reached to the very center of the earth via volcanic tubes in the crater of the celebrated inactive Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull.