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A Journey into the Interior of the Earth — Jules Verne

A Journey into the Interior of the Earth

Jules Verne

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 273 pages

A classic science fiction adventure novel by Jules Verne. It follows a professor and his companions as they descend into a volcano to explore the Earth's interior, encountering strange landscapes and prehistoric creatures. An imaginative journey that blends scientific speculation with thrilling adventure.

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A Journey into the Interior of the Earth

by Jules Verne

[Redactor's Note: The following version of Jules Verne's "Journey into the Interior of the Earth" was published by Ward, Lock, &Co.,

Ltd., London, in 1877. This version is believed to be the most faithful rendition into English of this classic currently in the public domain.

The few notes of the translator are located near the point where they are referenced. The Runic characters in Chapter III are visible in the

HTML version of the text. The character set is ISO-8891-1, mainly the

Windows character set. The translation is by Frederick Amadeus

Malleson.

While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some unfortunate emendations mainly concerning biblical references, and has added a few 'improvements' of his own, which are detailed below:

III. "pertubata seu inordinata," as Euclid has it."

XXX. cry, "Thalatta! thalatta!" the sea! the sea! The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly

XXXII. hippopotamus. {as if the creator, pressed for time in the first hours of the world, had assembled several animals into one.} The colossal mastodon

XXXII. I return to the scriptural periods or ages of the world, conventionally called 'days,' long before the appearance of man when

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Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. A JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH CHAPTER I.
  4. CHAPTER II.
  5. CHAPTER III.
  6. CHAPTER IV.
  7. CHAPTER V.
  8. CHAPTER VI.
  9. CHAPTER VII.
  10. CHAPTER VIII.
  11. CHAPTER IX.
  12. CHAPTER X.
  13. CHAPTER XI.
  14. CHAPTER XII.
  15. CHAPTER XIII.
  16. CHAPTER XIV.
  17. CHAPTER XV.
  18. CHAPTER XVI.
  19. CHAPTER XVII.
  20. CHAPTER XVIII.
  21. CHAPTER XIX.
  22. CHAPTER XX.
  23. CHAPTER XXI.
  24. CHAPTER XXII.
  25. CHAPTER XXIII.
  26. CHAPTER XXIV.
  27. CHAPTER XXV.
  28. CHAPTER XXVI.
  29. CHAPTER XXVII.
  30. CHAPTER XXVIII.

and 14 more chapters

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