What had happened? What effect had this frightful shock produced? Had the ingenuity of the constructors of the projectile obtained any happy result? Had the shock been deadened, thanks to the springs, the four plugs, the water-cushions, and the partition-breaks?--Follows From the Earth to the Moon.[...]

"Jules Verne", the most translated novelist in the world and best known for books such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" and "Around the World in Eighty Days", was also a prolific playwright. "Journey Through the Impossible", a play of fantasy and science fiction, ran for 97 performances in[...]

Jules Verne's classic tale of the first trip from the Earth to the Moon.

Shipwrecked Family: Marooned with Uncle RobinsonCastaway by pirates on a deserted island ... without tools or supplies to survive ... a mother and her children have only a kindly old sailor to help. But what explains the strange flora and fauna they find?The second volume in the Palik series, presen[...]

Prolific author and pioneer of the science fiction novel, Jules Verne, also, possessed hidden side that was encrypted into all his works - his active participation in the occult milieu of late nineteenth century France. Among the many esoteric secrets to be found are significant clues to the Rennes-[...]

Jules Verne's adventure story about a wager to circumvent the globe in 80 days was so popular when it was first published that it spawned several real-life copycats who tried to replicate the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout. In this adaptation French writer Loic Dauvillier team[...]

These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page hardcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. When seaman were sailing only wooden[...]