JULES VERNE

THE Voyages Extraordinaires of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern science to the popular taste, which demands that these should be presented to ordinary readers in the lighter form of ...

This new translation by William Butcher brilliantly conveys the hypnotic mood and gripping authenticity of Verne's second novel.

Un jeroglífico medieval casi indescifrable puede permanecer luengos siglos durmiendo entre las hojas de un libro viejo. Pero, cuando por azar caiga en manos del audaz profesor Otto Lidenbrock de Hamburgo, desencadenará el viaje más espectacular de todo el siglo XIX. El profesor, su sobrino Axel y el impasible Hans verán maravillas en el interior...

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical su...