Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)

· Series Two Book 16 · Delphi Classics
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About this ebook

Jules Verne is a paramount literary figure, whose pioneering works have entertained readers for over a hundred years, laying the foundations of modern science fiction. Verne’s influence extends far beyond the realms of literature into the world of science and technology, where he inspired generations of scientists, inventors and explorers. This eBook offers the most complete collection ever compiled of Verne’s work in English translation, with numerous illustrations, rare novels and informative introductions. (Version 4)


* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Verne’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* 50 novels in English translation, with individual contents tables

* French texts available for the 13 novels that cannot appear in English

* Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork

* Rare short stories

* Includes Verne’s non-fiction masterpiece ‘Celebrated Travels and Travellers’

* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

* UPDATED with revised texts, numerous illustrations and three rare translations: ‘The Castaways of the Flag’; ‘The Lighthouse at the End of the World’; ‘The Chase of the Golden Meteor’


Please note: sadly, a complete works of Verne in English is not possible due to copyright restrictions. To compensate for the 13 novels not available, the original French texts have been provided in their place (see the titles given in French below). As soon as new translations enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update.


CONTENTS:


The Novels

Five Weeks in a Balloon

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

From the Earth to the Moon

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

The Children of Captain Grant

Around the Moon

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

A Floating City

The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa

The Fur Country

Around the World in Eighty Days

The Mysterious Island

The Survivors of the Chancellor

Michael Strogoff

Off on a Comet

The Underground City

Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen

The Begum’s Fortune

Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

The Steam House

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

The Green Ray

Godfrey Morgan

Kéraban the Inflexible

The Archipelago on Fire

The Star of the South

Mathias Sandorf

Robur the Conqueror

The Lottery Ticket

The Flight to France

The Waif of the “Cynthia”

North against South

Two Years Holiday

The Purchase of the North Pole

Family without a Name

César Cascabel

Mistress Branican

The Carpathian Castle

Claudius Bombarnac

Foundling Mick

The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Antifer

The Floating Island

Facing the Flag

Clovis Dardentor

An Antarctic Mystery

Le Superbe Orénoque

The Will of an Eccentric

The Castaways of the Flag

Le Village aérien

Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin

Les Frères Kip

Bourses de voyage

Master of the World

Un Drame en Livonie

L’Invasion de la mer

The Lighthouse at the End of the World

Le Volcan d’or

L’Agence Thompson and Co

The Chase of the Golden Meteor

Le Pilote du Danube

Les Naufragés du “Jonathan”

Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz

L’Etonnante aventure de la mission Barsac


The Shorter Fiction

Martin Paz

The Blockade Runners

Dr. Ox and Other Stories

Frritt-Flacc

Hier et demain

A Drama in Mexico

The Mutineers of the Bounty

In the Year 2889

An Express of the Future


The Non-Fiction

Celebrated Travels and Travellers


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3.5
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SHUKHRATKHUJA SADIKOV
April 1, 2024
this very different from original. I compare book center of earth with original with this very different
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Matthew Pedersen
December 16, 2015
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