The Collected Works of Jules Verne E-Book

Jules Verne.

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17529

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 20500 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Around the World in Eighty Days • Vingt mille lieues sous les mers • Voyage au centre de la terre • Île mystérieuse • Vingt mille lieues sous les mers • From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon • In the Year and Michel Verne • Île mystérieuse • Voyage au centre de la terre • Cinq semaines en ballon. English • Les enfants du capitaine Grant • Abandoned • All Around the Moon • Le Sphinx de Glaces • Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space • Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar • A Journey to the Center of the Earth • Celebrated Travels and Travellers • Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. • Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • The Secret of the Island • Maître du monde. • The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • In Search of the Castaways • Celebrated Travels and Travellersules Verne • From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It • A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories • Un capitaine de quinze ans. • Around the World in Eighty Days • Robur-le-conquerant. • The Moon-Voyage • The English at the North Pole • Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. • Les indes-noirs. • The Blockade Runners • Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery • The Field of Ice • The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia • The Survivors of the Chancellor • Around the World in Eighty Days • The Pearl of Lima • etc.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

PART ONE

CHAPTER I

A SHIFTING REEF

CHAPTER II

PRO AND CON

CHAPTER III

I FORM MY RESOLUTION

CHAPTER IV

NED LAND

CHAPTER V

AT A VENTURE

CHAPTER VI

AT FULL STEAM

CHAPTER VII

AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE

CHAPTER VIII

MOBILIS IN MOBILI

CHAPTER IX

NED LAND'S TEMPERS

CHAPTER X

THE MAN OF THE SEAS

CHAPTER XI

ALL BY ELECTRICITY

CHAPTER XII

SOME FIGURES

CHAPTER XIII

THE BLACK RIVER

CHAPTER XIV

A NOTE OF INVITATION

CHAPTER XV

A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

CHAPTER XVI

A SUBMARINE FOREST

CHAPTER XVII

FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC

CHAPTER XVIII

VANIKORO

CHAPTER XIX

TORRES STRAITS

CHAPTER XX

A FEW DAYS ON LAND

CHAPTER XXI

CAPTAIN NEMO'S THUNDERBOLT

CHAPTER XXII

"AEGRI SOMNIA"

CHAPTER XXIII

THE CORAL KINGDOM

PART TWO

CHAPTER I

THE INDIAN OCEAN

CHAPTER II

A NOVEL PROPOSAL OF CAPTAIN NEMO'S

CHAPTER III

A PEARL OF TEN MILLIONS

CHAPTER IV

THE RED SEA

CHAPTER V

THE ARABIAN TUNNEL

CHAPTER VI

THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO

CHAPTER VII

THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS

CHAPTER VIII

VIGO BAY

CHAPTER IX

A VANISHED CONTINENT

CHAPTER X

THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES

CHAPTER XI

THE SARGASSO SEA

CHAPTER XII

CACHALOTS AND WHALES

CHAPTER XIII

THE ICEBERG

CHAPTER XIV

THE SOUTH POLE

CHAPTER XV

ACCIDENT OR INCIDENT?

CHAPTER XVI

WANT OF AIR

CHAPTER XVII

FROM CAPE HORN TO THE AMAZON

CHAPTER XVIII

THE POULPS

CHAPTER XIX

THE GULF STREAM

CHAPTER XX

FROM LATITUDE 47° 24' TO LONGITUDE 17° 28'

CHAPTER XXI

A HECATOMB

CHAPTER XXII

THE LAST WORDS OF CAPTAIN NEMO

CHAPTER XXIII

CONCLUSION

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

An Underwater Tour of the World

Translated from the Original French by F. P. Walter

VERNE'S TITLE

Introduction

Units of Measure

FIRST PART

Chapter 1

A Runaway Reef

Chapter 2

The Pros and Cons

Chapter 3

As Master Wishes

Chapter 4

Ned Land

Chapter 5

At Random!

Chapter 6

At Full Steam

Chapter 7

A Whale of Unknown Species

Chapter 8

"Mobilis in Mobili"

Chapter 9

The Tantrums of Ned Land

Chapter 10

The Man of the Waters

Chapter 11

The Nautilus

Chapter 12

Everything through Electricity

Chapter 13

Some Figures

Chapter 14

The Black Current

Chapter 15

An Invitation in Writing

Chapter 16

Strolling the Plains

Chapter 17

An Underwater Forest

Chapter 18

Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific

Chapter 19

Vanikoro

Chapter 20

The Torres Strait

Chapter 21

Some Days Ashore

Chapter 22

The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo

CHAPTER 23

"Aegri Somnia"*

Chapter 24

The Coral Realm

SECOND PART

Chapter 1

The Indian Ocean

Chapter 2

A New Proposition from Captain Nemo

Chapter 3

A Pearl Worth Ten Million

Chapter 4

The Red Sea

Chapter 5

Arabian Tunnel

Chapter 6

The Greek Islands

Chapter 7

The Mediterranean in Forty–Eight Hours

Chapter 8

The Bay of Vigo

Chapter 9

A Lost Continent

Chapter 10

The Underwater Coalfields

Chapter 11

The Sargasso Sea

Chapter 12

Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales

Chapter 13

The Ice Bank

Chapter 14

The South Pole

Chapter 15

Accident or Incident?

Chapter 16

Shortage of Air

Chapter 17

From Cape Horn to the Amazon

Chapter 18

The Devilfish

Chapter 19

The Gulf Stream

Chapter 20

In Latitude 47° 24' and Longitude 17° 28'

Chapter 21

A Mass Execution

Chapter 22

The Last Words of Captain Nemo

Chapter 23

Conclusion

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER XIII.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHAPTER XV.

CHAPTER XVI.

CHAPTER XVII.

CHAPTER XVIII.

CHAPTER XIX.

CHAPTER XX.

CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER XXII.

CHAPTER XXIII.

CHAPTER XXIV.

CHAPTER XXV.

CHAPTER XXVI.

CHAPTER XXVII.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

CHAPTER XXIX.

CHAPTER XXX.

CHAPTER XXXI.

CHAPTER XXXII.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

CHAPTER XXXV.

CHAPTER XXXVI.