Verne Jules: 1700 books

Avant d’entreprendre le récit des grandes expéditions du xviiie siècle, nous devons signaler les immenses progrès accomplis par les sciences durant cette période. Ils rectifièrent une foule d’erreurs consacrées, donnèrent une base sérieuse aux travaux des astronomes et des géographes....

Professor Lidenbrock liest in einem geheimnisvollen Dokument, dass es einen ganz besonderen Zugang in das Innere der Erde gibt ....

Classic / British English Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America.   There are many dangers along the way – and a detective who wants to arrest him!

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Dutch paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

Spencer Island, located 460 miles off the California coast is being auctioned. The island is uninhabited and there are only two bidders, William W. Kolderup, a very wealthy San Franciscan, and his arch-rival J. R. Taskinar, a resident of Stockton, California. Kolderup wins the auction, buying Spencer...

The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their adventures...

In 1859, officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company are given the mission to found a fort at 70 degrees north of the polar circle. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from then on, laws of physics seem altered (a total eclipse happens to be only partial; tides are not perceived anymore). They eventually realize that they are not where they are supposed to be.

Résumé : " Plus qu'un vaisseau, c'est une ville flottante. Si le Great Eastem n'est pas seulement une machine nautique, si c'est un microcosme, un observateur ne s'étonnera pas d'y rencontrer tous les instincts, tous les ridicules, toutes les passions des hommes. " Les rumeurs vont bon train quand...

Not a breath of wind, not a ripple on the surface of the ocean, not a cloud in the sky. The splendid constellations of the Southern Hemisphere shone with exquisite brilliancy. The Bounty lay motionless, with drooping sails, as the night wore on; and the moon, turning pale at the approach of dawn, filled...

Der reiche englische Gentleman Phileas Fogg, geradezu Exzentriker in Sachen Pünktlichkeit und täglichen Gewohnheiten und zudem ein leidenschaftlicher Whist-Spieler, wettet mit anderen Mitgliedern des Reform Club in London, dass es ihm gelingen werde, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen. Noch am selben...

„Sire, eine neue Depesche. — Von woher? — Aus Tomsk. — Ueber diese Stadt hinaus ist die Leitung unterbrochen? — Sie ist seit gestern gestört. — General, Sie werden von Stunde zu Stunde ein Telegramm von Tomsk einfordern und mich auf dem Laufenden erhalten. —...