Jules Verne
81) L'Île à hélice
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L'Île à hélice est un roman de fiction de Jules Verne. Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un quatuor musical, en raison de la supercherie astucieuse, qui s'est avérée être sur une immense île flottante qui est devenue la maison des millionnaires américains et qui nage constamment dans l'océan Pacifique. Standard Island est constamment en danger: l'invasion d'animaux sauvages, l'attaque de pirates malais, la lutte de deux familles riches pour le...
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‘The Golden Volcano’ is a writing work of a French novelist Jules Verne (fr. Jules Verne, 1828-1905). The lead characters are two cousins, who receive an inheritance from their uncle, a gold mine at outland Klondike. Weighing all advantages and disadvantages, they decide to go to Alaska.
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The story is set in 1839, eleven years after the events in Edgar Allan Poe's novel "Arthur Gordon Pym". The narrator is a wealthy American, named Jeorling, who has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and is now looking for a passage back to the USA. The Halbrane is one of the first ships to arrive at Kerguelen, and its captain Len Guy who somewhat reluctantly agrees to have Jeorling as a passenger. Underway,...
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Récit de trois voyages autour du monde.
James Cook (1728-1779) grandit en Angleterre o il débuta comme mousse, puis étudia la géométrie et l'astronomie à Halifax et fit le relevé des ctes de Terre-Neuve entre 1762 et 1767.
Jules Verne raconte ses trois voyages et fait une large place aux notes de Cook. La description des mœurs des indigènes — avec lesquels il s'efforça d'être pacifique —, ses anecdotes pittoresques et les paysages...
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Une édition de référence de Deux ans de vacances de Jules Verne, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Il était onze heures du soir. Sous cette latitude, au commencement du mois de mars, les nuits sont courtes encore. Les premières blancheurs du jour ne devaient apparaître que vers cinq heures du matin. Mais les dangers qui menaçaient le Sloughi seraient-ils moins grands lorsque le soleil éclairerait l'espace...
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New, superbly translated omnibus of five of Jules Verne's most renown stories.
"One of the best storytellers who ever lived."-Arthur C. Clarke
In one dazzling decade, French novelist Jules Verne took readers places they'd never gone before...the age of dinosaurs...the undersea realm of Atlantis...the craters and crevices of the moon...and a whirlwind aerial tour of the planet earth!
Though he penned his unforgettable yarns in French, Verne plunked...
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"The Blockade Runners" is a 1865 short story by French novelist Jules Verne. Set during the American Civil War, the story follows James Playfair, a British merchant captain who seeks to break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor, South Carolina in order trade for cotton. Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, playwright, and poet, generally considered a major literary figure in Europe. "The Father of Science...
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
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The Gun Club, a society based in Baltimore and dedicated to the design of weapons of all kinds, come up with a plan to construct a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the moon. The projectile is successfully launched, but the destinies of the three astronauts are left inconclusive. The sequel, Around the Moon, deals with what happens to the three men in their travel from the earth to the moon.
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Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim as a sailor. The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. After an unsuccessful season of hunting an entomologist ask for a return passage to San Francisco. Several days into the journey they save five shipwrecked passengers from another ship and a dog who was with them at the time.
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Descubra las mejores novelas de Julio Verne.
Considerado el precursor de la Ciencia Ficción, Julio Verne fue el más adelantado y visionario de los grandes escritores que nos dio el siglo XIX. Su desbordada imaginación dio lugar a medio centenar de las mejores novelas de aventuras de todos los tiempos: De la tierra a la luna, 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino o La vuelta al mundo en 80 días. La gran mayoría de su obra es digna de mención, y raro...
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Claudius Bombarnac, a reporter is assigned by the Twentieth Century to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan and Peking, China. Accompanying him on this journey is an interesting collection of characters, including one who is trying to beat the round the world record and another who is a stowaway.
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El relato transcurre en París, en 1960, y el protagonista es un joven intelectual, Michel Dufrenoy, que malvive en una sociedad mecanizada, que le tacha de inútil por amar la lectura y las lenguas clásicas. "No quiero talento, quiero capacidades", ese es el lema de los que triunfan y Michel Jérme no es uno de ellos. Al ganar un premio por escribir un verso en latín, el protagonista es abucheado por los descontentos con el amor hacía la poesía...
96) Maître du monde
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Sur les routes des États-Unis, une mystérieuse voiture a été repérée qui roule deux fois plus vite que n'importe quelle voiture de course. Au large des ctes américaines, on a découvert un étrange navire profilé qui flotte sans l'aide du vent, de la vapeur ou d'un moteur à kérosène et part de toute poursuite. Dans le lac, isolé du réseau hydrographique, on remarque la présence d'un sous-marin... Comment tous ces événements sont-ils...
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The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (French: Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).
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Here in one binding are both of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo novels. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea we meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo and The Nautilus. Even after many adventures and much derring-do Nemo's secrets remain his own, and at the end of the novel we are left with many mysteries concering this mysterious and tragic man. In The Mysterious Island we once again encounter Captain Nemo. The years have mellowed him some, and he reveals his surprising...
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The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters...