Jules Verne's adventures
Around the World in 80 Days is just one of Jules Verne's many exciting adventures stories. Experience the danger and intrigue from your armchair.
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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Jules Verne ; edited and translated by William Butcher.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Translation originally published: 1998.
- Translated from the French.
The golden volcano = Le volcan d'or : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
Jules Verne ; translated and edited by Edward Baxter ; preface to the French edition by Olivier Dumas.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
"Like many of the works left unpublished when Jules Verne died, The Golden Volcano was altered and edited by his son, Michel. This first translation from the original manuscript allows readers of English to rediscover the pleasures of Verne's storytelling in its original form - and to enjoy a virtually unknown gem of action, adventure, and style from a master of French literature." "The tale thrusts two Canadian cousins - unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike - into the middle of the gold rush, where they encounter disease, disaster, extremes of weather, and human nature twisted by a passion for gold. A deathbed confidence sends the two searching for a fabulous gold-filled volcano on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. But nature, both human and physical, hasn't finished with them, and their story plays out with the nail-biting adventure of an action thriller and the moral and emotional force of high drama."--BOOK JACKET.
Lighthouse at the end of the world = Le phare du bout du monde : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
Jules Verne ; translated and edited by William Butcher.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
"At the extreme tip of South America, Staten Island has piercing Antarctic winds, lonely coasts assaulted by breakers, and sailors lost as their vessels smash on the dark rocks. Now that civilization dares to rule here, a lighthouse penetrates the last and wildest place of all. But Vasquez, the guardian of the sacred light, has not reckoned with the vicious, desperate Kongre gang, who murder his two friends and force him out into the wilderness. Alone, without resources, can he foil their cruel plans?"--BOOK JACKET.
The Kip brothers
Jules Verne ; translated by Stanford L. Luce ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction and notes by Jean-Michel Margot.
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2007.
"Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication."--BOOK JACKET.
The meteor hunt = La chasse au météore : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
Jules Verne ; translated and edited by Frederick Paul Walter & Walter James Miller.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
The first complete and authentic English translation of Jules Verne's witty novel about a golden meteor crashing into the earth.
Around the world in eighty days
Jules Verne ; with a new introduction by Herbert Lottman ; revised and updated translation by Jacqueline Rogers.
New York, N.Y. : Signet Classics, c2005.
"Today you can go around the world in eighty days," says Philaes Fogg. "Do it, and I pay you $20,000," says his friend Stuart. This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most exciting stories. Phileas Fogg must get back to London by December 21st or lost all his money. And with the help of his servant, Passepartout, Fogg travels in many ways - from train to elephant - and has some surprising adventures on theway.
The Begum's millions
Jules Verne ; translated by Stanford L. Luce ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction & notes by Peter Schulman.
Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
"When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. Francois Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high-tech weapons of war. Its German creator, the fanatically pro-Aryan Herr Schultze, is Verne's first truly evil scientist. In his quest for world domination and racial supremacy, Schultze decides to showcase his deadly wares by destroying France-Ville and all its inhabitants. Both prescient and cautionary, The Begum's Millions is a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation and constitutes one of the earliest technological utopia/dystopias in Western literature. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices, and a critical introduction as well as all the illustrations from the original French edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Journey to the center of the earth
Jules Verne ; with a new afterword by Leonard Nimoy.
New York : Signet Classic, [2003]
As wonderfully entertaining today as when it was first published more than 140 years ago, this edition of the classic Jules Verne tale features a new Afterword by Leonard Nimoy. Reissue.
Article by: St. Louis Public Library staff