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The Lottery Ticket is not one of Mr. Vernes typical sea-air-adventure-stories, although it belongs to the authors well-known series called Voyages Extraordinaires. Ole Kamp, a fisherman, promises his wife-to-be Hulda, that he will make her rich after one more journey with a fishing-boat. But the boat never returns - instead a bottle arrives, containing a note for Hulda and the lottery ticket. News about the supposed tragedy mingle with high expectations and drawing-day is coming nearer and nearer ....

We leave it to the critics to determine the value of Jules Vernes descriptions if they were shorn of the marvellous in which he delights to clothe them. All we can say is. his grotesque images are highly amusing. Here we have the story of the Sepoy Mutiny in India, and hear a great deal about the terrible Nana who set it a-going. The Steam House is a gigantic engine of steel, fashioned like a huge elephant, impelled by steam, and dragging several vast cars as big as houses, up and down the country. We meet with this droll conception in many of the fabulous illustrations by a French artist.

The scene of Vernes adventure tale is laid in Florida, and the book is full of thrilling adventures and marvellous escapes by land and water. The hero, Mr. Burbank, a Northerner, for some years settled in the South, is a fine manly fellow, who scorns to tell anything but the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, when confronted by his enemies who had usurped authority in Jacksonville during those troublous times. The attack on Castle House is well told, and the excitement is great when it seems as though the tide will not admit the passage of the Federal gunboats over the river bar, and that our hero and his son will be sacrificed to the vengeance of their enemies. However, a fortunate gale carries the boats over the bar, and father and son are set at liberty, to begin what looks like almost a hopeless search amongst the creeks and islets of the St. Johns River for the missing child who, with her attendant, has been kidnapped by the same villain who had plotted the murder of her father and brother. We have an exciting voyage up the river nearly to its source, and a subsequent journey through forest and morass, with at last a rescue, though not before the faithful attendant has received a savage, though not mortal, wound. The whole story is well told, and the interest is sustained to the end. There are more than eighty illustrations of the different critical events recorded, showing, too, the lovely scenery of Florida with its luxuriant vegetation.

This time Mr. Vernes novel is set in beautiful Norway. The wealthy schoolfriend of schoolmaster Malarius discovers that Erik, one of his students, is actually an orphan and was raised by a local fisherman. He takes the bright, young lad to Stockholm and tries to find out where the roots of his mysterious life lay ...

A story from the untiring pen of Jules Verne has always been welcomed from a very wide circle of readers. No one that we ever knew has yet tired of the wwards works. He takes his characters through the wildest and most improbable (to say no more) incidents, and yet he describes everything as though it were not only probable, but actually true, and while we are deep in one of his stories we believe everything that we read. Captain Antifers father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Ja, Ramylk lasha, and many years after he received a mysterious document naming latitude 24 degrees 59 minutes north, and saying that the longitude would follow later. It never did; but Antifer succeeded in discovering it, and had a series ofmost exciting adventures in searching for the wealth which was to be found on the spot indicated. The story, which is thrillingly interesting from beginning to end, is lavishly illustrated.

Este viaje alrededor de la Luna, continuación del relato titulado De la Tierra a la Luna, es la prolongación novelada del Verne que sabe combinar, con el artificio del narrador vigoroso, los mitos lunares imaginados por el hombre desde los inicios de la humanidad con los conocimientos cientificos del siglo XIX. Esa mezcla, ese tejido de fantasia y conocimientos, es lo que constituye el aporte original de Verne.

El doctor Samuel Fergusson, sabio y explorador inglés, acompañado por su criado Joe y por su amigo Dick Kennedy, decide atravesar el continente africano, que hasta ese momento sólo era conocido de modo fragmentario, usando un globo hinchado con hidrogeno. Un dispositivo de su invencion, que permite subir o bajar a voluntad sin perder gas o echar lastre en busca de corrientes favorables, convierte al globo en un aparato dirigible.

When Axel deciphers an old parchment that describes a secret passage through a volcano to the centre of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. So, with silent Hans the guide, the two men embark on a perilous, astonishing, terrifying journey through the subterranean world - the most incredible voyage ever!

En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, la desaparición de numerosos barcos sin una explicación clara hace que navegar los mares ya no sea seguro. Los datos señalan a un monstruo marino, más grande que una ballena, dotado de una gran velocidad, potencia y que se torna, a veces, fosforescente.Una expedicion que incluye al profesor Aronnax, un naturalista, saldra a la mar a intentar desvelar el misterio.

Tercer volumen de la colección "Joyas literarias juveniles". Con seis de las obras más populares de Charles Dickens, todo un clásico de la literatura. En la decada de 1970 editorial Bruguera crea la coleccion "Joyas literarias juveniles", con la finalidad de adaptar al comic grandes clasicos de la literatura. Este tercer volumen de la coleccion recopila seis de las obras mas significativas de Charles Dickens, con titulos tan populares como David Copperfield, La tienda de antiguedades o Grandes esperanzas.

Jules Verne''s pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the 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. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures that they encounter, the greater the dangers, and the more ancient the living past that surrounds them. This new translation by Frank Wynne is accompanied by an introduction on the science of Verne''s work and its influences. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and suggested further reading. Translated by FRANK WYNNE with an introduction by JANE SMILEY and notes by PETER COGMAN

Este libro es una adaptación del clásico de Julio Verne que integra, a manera de evocaciones, imágenes y fragmentos de otros textos de la literatura universal. Con un estilo que combina lo clásico con las nuevas formas de la narrativa contemporanea, esta obra te acercara a la esencia de una novela que se anticipo al futuro y que ha inspirado, desde hace mas de un siglo, la imaginacion de personas de todas las latitudes.

Romanzo di fantascienza che narra le avventure dei protagonisti a bordo del sottomarino Nautilus, costruito e comandato in segreto dal misterioso Capitano Nemo.

This popular series of readers has now been completely revised and updated, using a new syllabus and new word structure lists. Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement.

Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino es una obra narrada en primera persona por el profesor francés Pierre Aronnax, notable biólogo que es hecho prisionero por el Capitán Nemo y es conducido por los oceanos a bordo del submarino Nautilus, en compañia de su criado Conseil y el arponero canadiense Ned Land.La historia comienza con una expedicion a bordo de un buque de la marina de guerra estadounidense: el Abraham Lincoln, al mando del almirante

Julio Verne."El rayo verde" es una novela del escritor francés Julio Verne publicada por entregas en Le Temps desde el 17 de mayo hasta el 23 de junio e íntegramente el 24 de julio de 1882. Es considerado como el mas romantico de los viajes extraordinarios.