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    Extraordinary Voyages (Library of Wonder): Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
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    Extraordinary Voyages (Library of Wonder): Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

    By Jules Verne, Nate Pride and William Butcher

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    “Verne was a master at taking us on intriguing journeys to far corners of our planet—and beyond.”

    —Arthur C. Clarke

    In the nineteenth century, French author Jules Verne awed readers with astounding adventures that transported them to the ends of the Earth, plunged them into the ocean’s depths, and dropped them into mysterious subterranean realms. Dubbed Voyages Extraordinaries, these unique blends of action, adventure, and science fiction offered prescient glimpses into the future and a level of scientific speculation unprecedented in imaginative fiction.

    The three novels collected here represent some of Verne’s most innovative and entertaining adventures. Around the World in Eighty Days is the chronicle of irrepressible adventurer Phileas Fogg, whose wager to circle the globe involves him in one cliff-hanging escapade after another. Journey to the Center of the Earth tells of intrepid explorers who discover a subterranean world of prehistoric marvels and menaces at the Earth’s core. In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas,scientist hero Captain Nemo investigates the exotic mysteries of the deep in his space-age submarine, the Nautilus. Two of these novels (Journey and 20,000 Leagues) are presented here with new English translations, and all three are newly illustrated with the incomparable fantasy art of Nate Pride.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFall River Press
    Release dateJun 7, 2011
    ISBN9781435137370
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    Extraordinary Voyages (Library of Wonder): Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
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    Jules Verne

    <p><b>Jules Verne</b> nació en Nantes en 1828, hijo de un abogado. Estudió y se doctoró en Derecho en París, siguiendo los derechos de su padre, pero, cuando decidió dedicarse a las letras, éste dejó de mantenerlo. Con la ayuda de los Dumas, padre e hijo, obtiene un empleo en el Théâtre-Lyrique de París y consigue estrenar en 1850 una comedia, <em>Les pailles rompues</em>. En 1851 empieza a publicar relatos en la revista <em>Le musée des familles</em>. En 1857 se convierte en agente de bolsa y empieza a viajar por Inglaterra, Escocia, Noruega y Escandinavia. En 1862 propone al editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel su novela <em>Cinco semanas en globo</em>, que se publica al año siguiente con un éxito extraordinario, y se liga a él con un contrato para escribir novelas y cuentos para el <em>Magasin d'éducation et de récréation</em> durante veinte años. Ahí inicia su serie de <em>Viajes extraordinarios</em>, que llegaría a ocupar sesenta y cuatro volúmenes. Nuevos viajes por Europa, África y América del Norte le servirían de inspiración. <em>Viaje al centro de la Tierra</em> (1864), <em>De la Tierra a la Luna</em> (1865), <em>Los hijos del capitán Grant</em> (1868), <em>Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino</em> (1870), <em>La vuelta al mundo en ochenta días</em> (1873), <em>La isla misteriosa</em> (1874-1875), <em>Michel Strogoff</em> (1876) o <em>Las tribulaciones de un chino en China</em> (1879) son algunas de sus más célebres novelas, que cautivaron a los lectores y entraron a formar parte del imaginario universal de lo siglos XIX y XX. Padre de la ciencia ficción, su interés por la tecnología y sus posibilidades es visible en <em>El castillo de los Cárpatos</em> (1892; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. CXVIII). Verne murió en Amiens en 1905.</p>

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