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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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"Journey to the Centre of the Earth" is an 1864 science-fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as "Voyage au centre de la Terre"). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the 'centre of the Earth'. They are involved in many adventures, encountering prehistoric animals and natural hazards, and eventually come to the surface again in southern Italy. Verne's own belief, expressed in the novel as the viewpoint of a character, is that the inside of the Earth does in fact differ from that which the characters encounter.

Author Biography

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 Kral and Almudena Grandes. He won the 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize for his translation of Frederic Beigbeder's Love Lasts Three Years, the 2005 Independent Fiction Prize for Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World and the 2002 IMPAC prize for Atomised his translation of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules elementaires. 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 Merimee to Marcel Schwob (2002).
Release date NZ
July 30th, 2009
Author
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Peter Cogman
  • Introduction by Jane Smiley
  • Translated by Frank Wynne
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Pages
288
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
129x198x17
ISBN-13
9780141441979
Product ID
2906909

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