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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged Classics) 4 reviews
Jules Verne
Sterling, 2006
Not a Content Review
As I have not read the book yet, I cannot rate the content. I am reviewing this book solely on the quality at this point.
If you are looking for a heavily illustrated book, it is not. There are maybe less than ten illustrations on quick count. However, the illustrations provided are quite nice. The binding appears to be a strong cardboard with a cloth-like finish. The book itself is composed ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Unabridged Classics) 2 reviews
Jules Verne
Sterling, 2007
Journey to the Center of the Earth
I was so pleased to add a quality, yet reasonable priced volume to update our classic section in our library.
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Scholastic Classics)173 reviews
Jules Verne
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2003
Excellent, Updated Translation
For those rereading 20,000 Leagues under the Sea after many years of telling yourself it was time to read it again, you will find William Butcher' translation quite a surprise. Not only quite accurate but you find additional chapters, not found in earlier translations. The sixty pages of "Explanatory Notes" puts a whole new slant on the story.
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Classic Starts: Around the World in 80 Days (Classic Starts Series) 2 reviews
Jules Verne
Sterling, 2007
Fogg and Passpartoit's Excellent Adventure
Fogg and Passpartout's Excellent Adventure
Around the world in 80 Days by Jules Verne is an adventure book that starts out slowly, but the pace gets faster as you read on. The characters have to get past the bandits. The bandits are Indian people who are like a gang and who have the character, Aouda, in a hut. Fogg and Passpartout want to save the woman. They save Aouda while she is ...
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From the Earth to the Moon (Bantam Classics)20 reviews
Jules Verne
Bantam Classics, 1993
A Science Fiction Classic
Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, made several predictions
that came true in this book. The book is exciting from cover to cover.
It deserves more credit than it seems to be getting. It was written over
one hundred years ago. I would recommend this book to any science fiction
fan. Danny Fleming, author of How to Prove The Collatz Conjecture.
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Bantam Classics)123 reviews
Jules Verne
Bantam, 1991
Another Wonderful Adventure by Jules Verne
Note: Some immature Mormon has been slamming my reviews because I wrote some negative reviews of books attempting to defend the Book of Mormon.
So your "helpful" votes are greatly appreciated. A short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great novel. I've just noted the general theme. Thanks
A group of adventures with an old map travel to Iceland and find a cave. ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Enriched Classics Series) 2 reviews
Jules Verne
Pocket, 2007
Remains fun, after more than 120 years
I read this good book, here in Brazil.This good book was writen more than 120 years ago.And this book remains fun and easy to read.The defects of this book is to be strange, for today's standards.Even being a fiction, this boook is also a good description of life in XIX Century.
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics)81 reviews
Jules Verne
Puffin, 1995
A Grand Adventure
Note: Some immature Mormon has been slamming my reviews because I wrote some negative reviews of books attempting to defend the Book of Mormon.
So your "helpful" votes are greatly appreciated. Thanks
In my opinion, a short review is best if you haven't read the book. I always read the longer reviews afterwards.
I read this book forty years ago in college and loved it. I also saw the ...
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The Mysterious Island (Modern Library Classics)12 reviews
Jules Verne
Modern Library, 2004
Survivor 19th Century Style!
This is my favorite book by Jules Verne and I've always been disappointed that it is so underappreciated.
After escaping a confederate prison camp in a hot air balloon, five men are stranded on a remote island. The characters prove to be innovative and determined souls and set about creating a life for themselves using their knowledge of chemistry and other sciences.
The title of the book ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)1 review
Jules Verne
Signet Classics, 2005
A TIMELESS CLASSIC
Anyone having seen the movie of the 1950's starring David Niven will be quite familiar with this novel from Jules Verne. None-the-less, the story is a pleasure to read whether one knows the outcome or not.
Jules Verne had wanted to be a writer from childhood but to please his parents (his father was a lawyer) studied to become a lawyer. Trying to combine the requirements of the law and the ...
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Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel23 reviews
Jules Verne, Richard Howard
Del Rey, 1997
Verne as prophet rather than novelist
This was a long-lost Manuscript of Verne's; it was his second science fiction novel and one of his most pessimistic (probably because he had not yet achieved his full success in life). It was never fleshed out into a full length novel due to its lack of commercial prospects (his publisher rightly assumed that people were looking for more positive views of the future in his day, just as his ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/Completely Restored and Annotated9 reviews
Jules Verne, Walter James Miller, ...
US Naval Institute Press, 1993
Best Translation Available -- accept no substitutes!
This is without a doubt the best translation of Jules Verne's 1870 science fiction classic "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers" ("20,000 Leagues under the Sea"). This translation by two Verne scholars, Walter James Miller and Frederick Paul Walter, takes all the knowledge available on the book and its author to not only make an accurate and readable complete text (early versions often omit a full ...
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The Golden Volcano: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript (Bison Frontiers of ...
Jules Verne
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
The Golden Volcano 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 ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (Illustrated Classics)
Jules Verne
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc., 2005
Journey to the Center(IC)Class E-mail this product to a friend READING LEVEL: 4.6 - 5.2 INTEREST LEVEL: 4 TO 12, ADULT This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educatiors using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70 page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Introduce literature to reluctant readers and motivate struggling readers. ...
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Puffin Classics)
Jules Verne
Puffin, 2008
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Around the World in 80 Days7 reviews
Jules Verne
Listening Library (Audio), 2005
Wonderful story
This is a wonderful classic story masterfully read by Jim Dale. If you start listening to it and think it is slow moving and boring, I would encourage you to be patient. Once the story gets going, and believe me it does, you will find yourself wrapped up in it as if you yourself had a part in Phileas Fogg's bet. If you don't give this story a chance you are really missing out. My children ...
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The Mysterious Island (Scribner's Illustrated Classics)69 reviews
Jules Verne
Atheneum, 1988
marvellous translation
In one of those odd coincidences, there hasn't been an english translation of this book in about 100 years, but two came out in 2000/1. One is actually available online: it was done as a labor of love by a retired
engineer. I didn't like his prose style, and found that he actively
mistranslated a crucial section to make it politically correct (Nemo's dying words were crucial and not nice ones). ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics)4 reviews
Jules Verne
Penguin Classics, 2004
Travel The World Without Leaving Your Armchair
No decent book collection is complete without this classic tale of travel and adventure. In comparison with the dated and crusty translations used in most modern reprints, this new edition contains clarity of expression and lively prose that kept me engrossed in Phileas Fogg's incredible odyssey around the globe. By reading Around the World in Eighty Days it is possible to recapture that lost ...
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea1 review
Jules Verne
Quiet Vision Pub, 2002
There's more Under the Sea than you think
The book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was an amazing book. Jules Verne explores the wildness of the sea, telling the adventure of explorer Captain Nemo and Professor Aronnax aboard the Nautilus. The book starts with Aronnax sailing on a ship to find and destroy a certain "animal" that men have told stories about every time a ship has disappeared. Their ship succeeds in finding this monstrous ...
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Classic Starts: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Classic Starts Series)
Jules Verne
Sterling, 2006
Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.
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