Alrededor de la Luna (Autour de la Lune) es una novela del escritor frances Julio Verne, aparecida de manera seriada en el "Journal des debats politiques et litteraires" desde el 4 de noviembre hasta el 8 de diciembre de 1869 y publicada el 13 de enero de 1870. Luego fue editada junto con "De la Tierra a la Luna," novela de la que es continuacion, el 16 de septiembre de 1872. En esta historia se describen con lujo de detalles las peripecias de los tres exploradores Impey Barbicane, Nicholl y Miguel Ardan, que viajan a la Luna en una bala de canon hueca, y como logran regresar a la Tierra."

An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.

Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune, 1870), Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel which continues the trip to the moon which was only partially described in the previous novel. It was later combined with From the Earth to the Moon to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It.

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, literally Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d'Education et de Recreation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. 1] The book was highly acclaimed when...

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1869-1870. Cette uvre a fait l'objet de nombreuses adaptations au cinema, a la television ainsi qu'en bande dessinee. L'apparition d'une bete monstrueuse en 1866 dans plusieurs mers du globe defraie la chronique. L'animal, rapide, fusiforme et phosphorescent, est responsable de plusieurs naufrages, brisant le bois des navires avec une force colossale. De retour d'une expedition dans le Nebraska, Pierre Aronnax, professeur suppleant au Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, emet l'hypothese d'un narval geant."

De lengtemaat die in de titel wordt genoemd, is de leuga, overeenstemmend met een uur gaans. Een metrieke lieue is vier kilometer. De afgelegde afstand volgens het boek is inderdaad ongeveer 80 000 kilometer. De lieue die op zee wordt gebruikt, is echter drie zeemijl, ruim 5,5 km.

De lengtemaat die in de titel wordt genoemd, is de leuga, overeenstemmend met een uur gaans. Een metrieke lieue is vier kilometer. De afgelegde afstand volgens het boek is inderdaad ongeveer 80 000 kilometer. De lieue die op zee wordt gebruikt, is echter drie zeemijl, ruim 5,5 km.

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1879. Kin-Fo est un jeune Chinois riche, qui est indifferent a tout et ne connait pas le bonheur. Un jour, il se retrouve ruine. Ne voulant pas imposer a sa future epouse une vie miserable, il prefere mourir. Au moment de se donner la mort, il se rend compte qu'il ne ressent rien, et decide qu'il ne peut mourir sans connaitre d'emotions au moins une fois dans sa vie. Il demande donc a son maitre et ami, le philosophe Wang, de le tuer dans un delai imparti, ce qui, il l'espere, lui fera redouter la mort et...

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the genre of science-fiction. He is best known for his novels "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870), and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author of all time, behind Disney Productions and Agatha Christie. His prominent novels have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G....