A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
Verne
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Verne · 47 chapters
Quotes from this book
Certainly no writer before M. Jules Verne has been so happy in weaving together in judicious combination severe scientific truth with a charming exercise of playful imagination.
Perhaps he will tell us that himself.
Chapters
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- PrefaceSample
- THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY
- CHAPTER II.
- THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR
- THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION
- FAMINE, THEN VICTORY, FOLLOWED BY DISMAY
- CHAPTER VI.
- Preface
- CHAPTER VII.
- SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL DESCENT
- CHAPTER IX.
- INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
- BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO
- CHAPTER XV.
- BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER
- VERTICAL DESCENT
- THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS
- GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU
- THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS
- COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR'S HEART
- TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER
- WATER DISCOVERED
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- DE PROFUNDIS
- THE WORST PERIL OF ALL
- LOST IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH
- THE RESCUE IN THE WHISPERING GALLERY
- CHAPTER XXIX.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
- WONDERS OF THE DEEP
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- THE GREAT GEYSER
- AN ELECTRIC STORM
- CALM PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSIONS
- THE LIEDENBROCK MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY
- THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN
- FOREST SCENERY ILLUMINATED BY ELECTRICITY
- CHAPTER XL.
- Chapter
- CHAPTER XLII.
- CHAPTER XLIII.
- SUNNY LANDS IN THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN
- CHAPTER XLV.