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Fiction · 1864

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

Reading time
about 6 h
Length
85,644 words · 194 pages
Structure
44 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, first published in 1864, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. Chapter 1 — My Uncle Makes a Great Discovery
  3. Chapter 2 — The Mysterious Parchment
  4. Chapter 3 — An Astounding Discovery
  5. Chapter 4 — We Start on the Journey
  6. Chapter 5 — First Lessons in Climbing
  7. Chapter 6 — Our Voyage to Iceland
  8. Chapter 7 — Conversation and Discovery
  9. Chapter 8 — The Eider-Down Hunter—Off at Last
  10. Chapter 9 — Our Start—We Meet with Adventures by the Way
  11. Chapter 10 — Traveling in Iceland
  12. Chapter 11 — We Reach Mount Sneffels—The “Reykir”
  13. Chapter 12 — The Ascent of Mount Sneffels
  14. Chapter 13 — The Shadow of Scartaris
  15. Chapter 14 — The Real Journey Commences
  16. Chapter 15 — We Continue Our Descent
  17. Chapter 16 — The Eastern Tunnel
  18. Chapter 17 — Deeper and Deeper—The Coal Mine
  19. Chapter 18 — The Wrong Road!
  20. Chapter 19 — The Western Gallery—A New Route
  21. Chapter 20 — Water, Where Is It? A Bitter Disappointment
  22. Chapter 21 — Under the Ocean
  23. Chapter 22 — Sunday Below Ground
  24. Chapter 23 — Alone
  25. Chapter 24 — Lost!
  26. Chapter 25 — The Whispering Gallery
  27. Chapter 26 — A Rapid Recovery
  28. Chapter 27 — The Central Sea
  29. Chapter 28 — Launching the Raft
  30. Chapter 29 — On the Waters—A Raft Voyage
  31. Chapter 30 — Terrific Saurian Combat
  32. Chapter 31 — The Sea Monster
  33. Chapter 32 — The Battle of the Elements
  34. Chapter 33 — Our Route Reversed
  35. Chapter 34 — A Voyage of Discovery
  36. Chapter 35 — Discovery Upon Discovery
  37. Chapter 36 — What Is It?
  38. Chapter 37 — The Mysterious Dagger
  39. Chapter 38 — No Outlet—Blasting the Rock
  40. Chapter 39 — The Explosion and Its Results
  41. Chapter 40 — The Ape Gigans
  42. Chapter 41 — Hunger
  43. Chapter 42 — The Volcanic Shaft
  44. Chapter 43 — Daylight at Last
  45. Chapter 44 — The Journey Ended

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About the author

Jules Verne

1828–1905 · Victorian

Jules Verne (1828–1905) was born at Nantes and sent to Paris to study law, which he gave up for the theatre and then for fiction. With the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel he began the Voyages extraordinaires, the series of some sixty novels that included Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). He settled at Amiens, and is among the most translated of all authors.

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