[ Redactor's Note: Journey to the Centre of the Earth is number V002 in the Taves and Michaluk numbering of the works of Jules Verne. First published in England by Griffith and Farran, 1871, this edit...
When I saw myself thus wholly cut off from human succour, incapable of attempting anything for my deliverance, I thought of heavenly succour. Memories of my childhood, of my mother...came back to me....
The next day, the 30th of March, after a hasty breakfast, which consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to climb again to the summit of the volcano, so as more attentively to sur...
Literature is dead, my boy' the uncle replied. 'Look at these empty rooms, and these books buried in their dust; no one reads anymore; I am the guardian of a cemetery here, and exhumation is forbidden...
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
In this manner, in early days, were formed those vast and prodigious layers of coal, which an ever—increasing consumption must utterly use up in about three centuries more, if people do not find some...
Hurrah! cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). Distance does not exist! And overcome by the energy of his movements, he nearly fell from the platform to the ground. He just esc...
El juego es un placer siempre grosero, a veces malsano. El hombre atacado de esta enfermedad no puede menos de padecer otras. Es un vicio que nunca va solo.
But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.
Science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than otherwise, for they have been the stepping stones to truth.
But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
As for the Yankees, they had no other ambition than to take possession of this new continent of the sky, and to plant upon the summit of its highest elevation the star- spangled banner of the United S...
An English criminal, you know, is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
Question. On the 20th of July, 1866, the steamer Governor Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia. Captain...
As I remarked before, the Asiatic elephant is smaller than the African, which is frequently twelve feet high, and its tusks are in proportion. In the island of Ceylon a certain number of animals are f...
A moving wall of oxen advanced, and our mighty elephant himself was brought to a standstill. There was nothing to regret in this enforced halt, however, for a most curious spectacle was presented to o...
Continuons donc notre excursion, repris-je, mais ayons l’œil aux aguets, quoique l’ile paraisse inhabitée, elle pourrait renfermer, cependant, quelques individus qui seraient moins difficiles que nous...
On the 22nd of September, Jansi was passed at a considerable distance. This city is the most important military station in the Bundelkund, and the spirit of revolt is strong in the lower classes of it...