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Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities on their perilous, astonishing, terrifying trek through the underworld.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities on their perilous, astonishing, terrifying trek through the underworld.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre. His novels include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Frank Wynne has been a literary translator for more than a decade and has translated works by, among others, Michel Houellebecq, Ahmadou Kourouma, Petr Král and Almudena Grandes. He won the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize for his translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's Love Lasts Three Years, the 2005 Independent Fiction Prize for Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World and the 2002 IMPAC prize for Atomised his translation of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires.
Jane Smiley is the author of many novels, including Horse Heaven, The Greenlanders, A Thousand Acres, and Ten Days in the Hills, as well as a guide to the Novel, entitled Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and been short-listed for the Orange Prize. She lives in California.
Peter Cogman won a Scholarship to read Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he subsequently gained a Ph.D. for research on the work of the 1900s poet and novelist P.-J. Toulet. He taught French at the University of Southampton, and is the author of Narration in Nineteenth-Century French Short Fiction: Prosper Mérimée to Marcel Schwob (2002).
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
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Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780141441979 |
ISBN-10: | 0141441976 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Verne, Jules |
Redaktion: | Cogman, Peter |
Übersetzung: | Wynne, Frank |
Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Maße: | 195 x 127 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jules Verne |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2009 |
Gewicht: | 0,223 kg |
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre. His novels include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Frank Wynne has been a literary translator for more than a decade and has translated works by, among others, Michel Houellebecq, Ahmadou Kourouma, Petr Král and Almudena Grandes. He won the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize for his translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's Love Lasts Three Years, the 2005 Independent Fiction Prize for Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World and the 2002 IMPAC prize for Atomised his translation of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires.
Jane Smiley is the author of many novels, including Horse Heaven, The Greenlanders, A Thousand Acres, and Ten Days in the Hills, as well as a guide to the Novel, entitled Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and been short-listed for the Orange Prize. She lives in California.
Peter Cogman won a Scholarship to read Modern and Medieval Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he subsequently gained a Ph.D. for research on the work of the 1900s poet and novelist P.-J. Toulet. He taught French at the University of Southampton, and is the author of Narration in Nineteenth-Century French Short Fiction: Prosper Mérimée to Marcel Schwob (2002).
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
---|---|
Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780141441979 |
ISBN-10: | 0141441976 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Verne, Jules |
Redaktion: | Cogman, Peter |
Übersetzung: | Wynne, Frank |
Hersteller: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Maße: | 195 x 127 x 23 mm |
Von/Mit: | Jules Verne |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2009 |
Gewicht: | 0,223 kg |