Aquela novèla postuma, pareguda en 1910, desparelha dins l'òbra de Jules Verne que se coneis puslèu per èsser un autor optimista. Pensava que lo progrès porgit per las sciéncias e las invencions èra l'avenidor de l'umanitat.
Aicí son figas d'una autra desca. Sèm en plen dins un autre registre, plan mai pessimista : l'umanitat es confrontada a sa brutala e inexorabla desaparacion. Emai se capita qualques còps de se salvar, totjorn in extremis, es per tornamai càser dins sos travèrses que son guèrras e autres crimis.
Totòm se mainarà qu'aqueste tèxte, fòrça modèrne, sarra l'actualitat contemporanèa. A un sègle de distància sembla escrich per aqueste debuta de sègle XXIen.
Jules Verne, nascut en 1828 a Nantas, moriguèt en 1905 a Amiens. Foguèt lo vulgarizator mannat del raconte que pus tard vendrà un genre literari d'esperel : la Sciéncia-Ficcion. Read more Close

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"Around the World in Eighty Days" is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. The story follows Phileas Fogg, a wealthy English gentleman, and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. The novel was written during difficult times for France and Verne, and the technological innovations of the 19th century had opened the possibility of rapid circumnavigation. The book sparked the imagination that anyone could travel around the world, a feat previously reserved for only the most heroic and hardy of adventurers. The idea of a trip around the world within a set period had clear external origins, and the title "Around the World in Eighty Days" is not original. The novel has been adapted into plays, films, and even a video game. The Jules Verne Trophy has been given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance in the shortest time since 1993. In 2017, Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days. Read more Close

Twenty Thousand (20,000) Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer 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. As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in New York City to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in his field, is issued a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts.
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Per festar la Sent Jòrdi 2016, vos uefrem un recuelh de las doàs novelas qu'avem publiadas dins la colleccion "Imaginari". S'agís de la Maquina a desintegrar d'Arthur Conan Doyle e d'En l'An 2889 de Jules Verne.

Fritz Napoleon Smith es lo director de l'Earth Chronicle, lo primier jornau parlat de l'istòria dau monde. Vos fai descubrir, dau temps de sa jornada de trabalh, lo monde de 2889, coma a pogut èsser imaginat en 1889. Vos perpausam queu raconte visionari ente Verne imagina emb un segle d'avança çò que nos sembla nòstre vita de chasque jorn.Las primieras linhas :"E mai semble pas qu'i sosquen gaire, lo mond d'aiceste sègle XXIXen vivon en tot moment dins un conte de fadas. Sadols coma son de meravilhas, se mòstran indiferents davant l'aparicion de cada novèla meravilha. A lor vejaire, tot sembla natural. Baste que poguèsson apreciar coma cal los rafinaments de la civilizacion de nòstres jorns; baste que comparèsson lo present amb lo passat, e atal donc comprendrián çò qu'avèm capitat! A quin ponch trobarián adeqüadas nòstras vilas modèrnas, que lors populacions atenhon de còps que i a 10 000 000 d'armas; lors carrièras 300 pès de larg, lors ostals 1 000 pès de naut; amb una temperatura parièra totas las sasons; amb lors linhas de locomocion aeriana crosant lo cèl dins totas las direccions! S'imaginèsson l'estat de las causas qu'existissiá quand de bóstias brusentas sus de ròdas, trigossadas per cavals -òc, per cavals!- per de carrièras enfangadas èran los sols mejans de transpòrt. Pensatz als camins de fèrre d'un còp èra e poiretz avalorar los tudèls pneumatics qu'a travèrs eles uèi es possible de viatjar a la velocitat de 1 000 milas l'ora. Presarián pas mai nòstres contemporanèus lo telefòn e lo telefòt s'aguèsson pas oblidat lo telegraf?" Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "From the Earth to the Moon + Around the Moon" contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon.
Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel.
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction. A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time. Verne wrote about undersea, air, and space travel long before any navigable or practical craft were invented. Verne wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas + Around the World in Eighty Days + The Mysterious Island " contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
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 his friends at the Reform Club.
The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. In the novel a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island s bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret...
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who pioneered the genre of science fiction. A true visionary with an extraordinary talent for writing adventure stories, his writings incorporated the latest scientific knowledge of his day and envisioned technological developments that were years ahead of their time. Verne wrote about undersea, air, and space travel long before any navigable or practical craft were invented. Verne wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories. Some of his most successful novels appeared as a series collectively known as Extraordinary Voyages. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mysterious Island Trilogy - The Original UK Translation" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is subtitled Dropped from the Clouds, Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. It is a translation of L'Île mystérieuse first published in England by Sampson and Low and in the United States by Scribner and Henry L. Shepard using the same translation of W. H. G. Kingston. English translators often altered their translations to suit current political views of Church and Empire. The novel is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells the tale of how these men survive.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mysterious Island Trilogy - The Original UK Translation" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne is subtitled Shipwrecked in the Air, The Abandoned and The Secret of the Island. The present translation is by Stephen W. White. It first appeared in the Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia, PA and was later published as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book in 1876. English translators often altered their translations to suit current political views of Church and Empire.
It is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells the tale of how these men survive.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mysterious Island Trilogy" contains two translations in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Mysterious Island was originally published as L'Ile mystéreuse in parts in France between 1873 and 1875 in a periodical. It was the last part of a trilogy. The Mysterious Island made the links between the two novels Captain Grant's Children (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869). This idea had been born even before the start of writing of The Mysterious Island.
The first English translation was available by Sampson Low in 1875, translated by W.H.G. Kingston. He was a famous author of boys' adventure and sailing stories. However, it is now known that the actual translator of Mysterious Island and his other Verne novels was actually his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston. Based on this first English version followed many other variants of translations or abridged versions.
In 1876 the Stephen W. White translation appeared first in the columns of The Evening Telegraph of Philadelphia and subsequently as an Evening Telegraph Reprint Book. This translation is more faithful to the original story and restores the death scene of Captain Nemo, but there is still condensation and omission of some sections such as Verne's description of how a sawmill works.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, The Mysterious Island & Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne was fascinated by adventure and exploration. Collecting "A Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Around the World in 80 Days", "From the Earth to the Moon", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island", this omnibus offers a unique compilation of five of Verne's Voyages, stories in which he extrapolated developing technology and invention into marvellous fiction. This volume offers readers a generous introduction to Jules Verne, whose books are as alive today as they were for readers new to the ideas expressed in them during his time.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Novels of Jules Verne in English" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
Five Weeks In A Balloon - 1863
A Journey To The Center Of The Earth - 1864
The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras - 1864
From The Earth To The Moon - 1865
In Search Of The Castaways - 1865
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - 1869
Around The Moon - 1869
Around The World In Eighty Days - 1872
The Fur Country - 1872
The Mysterious Island - 1874
The Survivors Of The Chancellor - 1874
Michael Strogoff - 1876
Off On A Comet - 1877
The Underground City (or The Child of the Cavern) - 1877
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen - 1878
Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon - 1881
Godfrey Morgan - 1882
Robur The Conqueror - 1886
The Purchase of the North Pole (or Topsy-Turvy) - 1889
The Adventures Of A Special Correspondent (or Claudius Bombarnac) - 1893
Facing The Flag - 1896
An Antarctic Mystery - 1897
The Master Of The World - 1904
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Illustrated (original illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Twenty Thousand (20,000) Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer 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. As the story begins in 1866, a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States government finally assembles an expedition in New York City to track down and destroy the menace. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a noted French marine biologist and narrator of the story, who happens to be in New York at the time and is a recognized expert in his field, is issued a last-minute invitation to join the expedition, and he accepts.
This ebook edition contains all 70 original illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. Read more Close

This carefully crafted ebook: "Treasure Island + The Mysterious Island (2 Unabridged Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North.
Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality - as seen in Long John Silver - unusual for children's literature now and then. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders.
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson." The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way - by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their adventures... Read more Close