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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
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Description for Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Paperback. Translator(s): Butcher, William. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, the novel's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse ... Read more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, the novel's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
193g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199538072
SKU
V9780199538072
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About Jules Verne
William Butcher is a lecturer in French, and has taught modern languages and pure mathematics in Malaysia and France.
Reviews for Journey to the Centre of the Earth
a virtuoso exegete
French Studies
extremely useful
The Modern Language Review
French Studies
extremely useful
The Modern Language Review