About the book
Professor Liedenbrock of Hamburg finds a coded note in an old Icelandic book: a sixteenth-century alchemist claims to have reached the center of the earth through a volcano in Iceland. He drags his nervous nephew Axel north to follow him down. With their silent guide Hans they find a sea underground, forests of giant mushrooms and creatures long extinct. Jules Verne published the novel in 1864.
Translated from the French by F. A. Malleson (1877).
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
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Chapter 1: The Professor and His Family
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Chapter 2: A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price
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Chapter 3: The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor
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Chapter 4: The Enemy to Be Starved into Submission
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Chapter 5: Famine, Then Victory, Followed by Dismay
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Chapter 6: Exciting Discussions About an Unparalleled Enterprise
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Chapter 7: A Woman's Courage
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Chapter 8: Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent
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Chapter 9: Iceland! but What Next?
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Chapter 10: Interesting Conversations with Icelandic Savants
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Chapter 11: A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth
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Chapter 12: A Barren Land
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Chapter 13: Hospitality Under the Arctic Circle
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Chapter 14: But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
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Chapter 15: Snæfell at Last
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Chapter 16: Boldly Down the Crater
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Chapter 17: Vertical Descent
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Chapter 18: The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths
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Chapter 19: Geological Studies in Situ
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Chapter 20: The First Signs of Distress
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Chapter 21: Compassion Fuses the Professor's Heart
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Chapter 22: Total Failure of Water
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Chapter 23: Water Discovered
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Chapter 24: Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I' the Ground So Fast?
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Chapter 25: De Profundis
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Chapter 26: The Worst Peril of All
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Chapter 27: Lost in the Bowels of the Earth
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Chapter 28: The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery
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Chapter 29: Thalatta! Thalatta!
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Chapter 30: A New Mare Internum
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Chapter 31: Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery
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Chapter 32: Wonders of the Deep
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Chapter 33: A Battle of Monsters
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Chapter 34: The Great Geyser
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Chapter 35: An Electric Storm
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Chapter 36: Calm Philosophic Discussions
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Chapter 37: The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology
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Chapter 38: The Professor in His Chair Again
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Chapter 39: Forest Scenery Illuminated by Electricity
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Chapter 40: Preparations for Blasting a Passage to the Centre of the Earth
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Chapter 41: The Great Explosion and the Rush Down Below
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Chapter 42: Headlong Speed Upward Through the Horrors of Darkness
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Chapter 43: Shot Out of a Volcano at Last!
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Chapter 44: Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean
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Chapter 45: All's Well That Ends Well
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