"Abandoned" by Jules Verne (translated by William Henry Giles Kingston). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
<P>Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series «Voyages Extraordinaires.» A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers.</P><P>Instead of...
Herr Dis und Fräulein Es sind zwei Kinder aus der Schweiz, die diese Spitznamen erhielten, weil sie beide über die gleiche Stimmlage verfügen. Beide singen im Kirchenchor des Dorfes Kalfermatt. Den Organisten und Chorleiter Meister Effarane stört die Harmonie der beiden Kinder. Der diabolische Chorleiter verwandelt die beiden Chorkinder in ihren Träumen in Orgelpfeifen.
This book travesties in Jules Verne's inimitable and fascinating style the numerous ponderous books of African travel and adventure. In thrilling interest it surpasses them all, while the illustrations with which the book is crowded are so graphic that the story itself may almost be read by them, and without going through the text.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax. Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by...
Dies ist die illustrierte Version dieses Klassikers. Eine englisch-russische Kommission macht sich im Jahre 1854 auf, um in der Kapkolonie Südafrikas, in achtzehnmonatiger Arbeit, einen Meridiankreis zu messen. Zu gleichen Teilen besteht die Gruppe aus den drei englischen Astronomen: Colonel Everest, William Emery und Sir John Murray, sowie den drei russischen Astronomen: Matthias Strux, Nikolaus Palander und Michael Zorn. Begleitet werden diese von einem wackeren Buschmann namens Mokum. Im...
20000 Leagues Under the Seas was one of the first science fiction novels ever and has been a classic in this genre ever since its publication in 1870. It tells the world-famous story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus and a journey all around the earth.
Verne's story describes a trip on the «Great Eastern,» from Liverpool to New York, and a journey afterwards up the Hudson and to the Falls of Niagara. The descriptive parts of the story are free from Verne's well-known peculiarities, and therefore seem tame coming from his pen ; but in making « the floating city» the scene of a dramatic love story, he is all himself again—particularly at the end, where the hero engages in a duel on deck in the night during a frightful storm, and his...