Journey to the Center of the Earth. By: Jules Verne. ( translated by: Frederick Amadeus Malleson ): novel - Softcover

Verne, Jules; Malleson, Frederick Amadeus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1536921181 ISBN 13: 9781536921182

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Jules Gabriel Verne was born on 8 February 1828 on Île Feydeau, a small artificial island on the Loire River within the town of Nantes, in No. 4 Rue de Clisson, the house of his maternal grandmother Dame Sophie Allotte de la Fuÿe. His parents were Pierre Verne, an attorney originally from Provins, and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, a Nantes woman from a local family of navigators and shipowners, of distant Scottish descent. In 1829, the Verne family moved some hundred meters away to No. 2 Quai Jean-Bart, where Verne's brother Paul was born the same year. Three sisters, Anna, Mathilde, and Marie, would follow (in 1836, 1839, and 1842, respectively). In 1834, at the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes. The teacher, Mme Sambin, was the widow of a naval captain who had disappeared some 30 years before. Mme Sambin often told the students that her husband was a shipwrecked castaway and that he would eventually return like Robinson Crusoe from his desert island paradise.[9] The theme of the Robinsonade would stay with Verne throughout his life and appear in many of his novels, including The Mysterious Island (1874), Second Fatherland (1900), and The School for Robinsons (1882).

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This wonderful series is brought back to life in freshly coloured new UK editions, designed to entrance and engage another generation. Issue 6 of the new series. As collectable, and as readable, as ever. Great for reluctant readers too. War of the Worlds, Oliver Twist, The Man in the Iron Mask and Robin Hood already available.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1536921181
• ISBN 13: 9781536921182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256