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1. Jules Verne

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Unbearably thrilling and romantic...full of Verne's gentle humour—Daily MailAmong the deep-sea volcanoes, shoals of swirling fish, giant squid and sharks, Captain Nemo steers the Nautilus. Nemo is the renegade scientist par excellence, a man madly inventive in his quest for revenge—Sunday TelegraphA tale of terror, suspense and wonder—GuardianFabulous...the pace is sharp and the story as dramatic and engaging as ever—Daily ExpressVerne's imagination has given us some of the greatest adventure stories of all time—Daily MailOne of the books I have read and re-read with unfailing pleasure and interest is Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.... Verne's novel entranced me. I was in love with Captain Nemo, the brooding cultured misanthrope of the deeps, who combined the romantic qualities of Heathcliff and Byron with the ruthlessness of Macbeth—Independent

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Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound editionA Pengun Classic HardcoverOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand-whether train or elephant-overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

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20.000 mijlen onder zee

De oceanen worden geteisterd door een verschrikkelijk monster dat tegen zonsondergang plotseling opduikt en zich te goed doet aan de schepen en hun bemanning. Een goede reden voor de bekende diepzeegeleerde professor Aronnax om op zoek te gaan naar dit geheimzinnige en kwaadaardige dier. Samen met zijn helper Conseil stapt hij aan boord bij zeeman Ned Land. Maar al snel wordt hun boot tot zinken gebracht door het monster. Dan ontdekken Arronnax en zijn mannen de bron van het kwaad: een fanatieke geleerde met een mysterieuze duikboot. Maar dat is niet alles; ze krijgen ook te maken met kannibalen, oorlogsschepen en angstaanjagend grote inktvissen!

1. Jules Verne

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Tells the story of distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in runes, it tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own, illuminated by an electrified gas and populated by strange, prehistoric beings.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is both a marine adventure and a speculative encyclopedia of the nineteenth-century imagination. Through Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land's captivity aboard Captain Nemo's Nautilus, Verne fuses suspenseful travel narrative with meticulous descriptions of oceanography, engineering, and natural history. Written within the ambitious framework of the Voyages extraordinaires, the novel transforms scientific curiosity into romance while also darkening adventure fiction with questions of exile, empire, vengeance, and technological power. Verne, a French writer shaped by the age of exploration, industrial invention, and popular science publishing, possessed a gift for converting contemporary knowledge into prophetic fiction. His fascination with geography, machines, and global travel, combined with his disciplined research and theatrical sense of plot, made Nemo's undersea world plausible as well as mythic. The novel reflects Verne's era: confident in progress, yet uneasy about its moral consequences. This book is highly recommended to readers interested in the origins of science fiction, maritime literature, or adventure narratives with philosophical depth. Its catalogues and technical passages reward patient reading, while Nemo remains one of literature's most compelling enigmas. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea endures because it makes discovery feel wondrous, dangerous, and intellectually serious.

1. Jules Verne

Autour de la Lune