Verne: 2006 books

Phileas Fogy, a wealthy Londoner, was a member of the Reform Club. He was also slightly eccentric by nature. His friends at the club challenged him for 20,000 pounds to go around the world in eighty days. He accepted the wager and set out from London with his wallet, passport etc. Did he win the wager? Come, let us join Phileas Fogy on his tour and find out.

An unmarried by mathematically precise Englishman dismisses his valet for heating his shaving water two degrees cooler than usual. He hires a French valet to replace him and the two of them set off to travel around the world in eighty days - a supposedly possible feat, now that the Indian railways...

A fantastical steampunk novel of magic and machines set in an alternate 1830s London Madame Magdala has reinvented herself many times, trying to escape Lord Byron's revenge. She destroyed the Transference Engine Byron hoped to use to transfer his soul into a more perfect body and perpetuate...

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After decoding a scrap of paper in runic script, the intrepid Professor Lidenbrock and his nervous nephew Axel travel across Iceland to find the secret passage to the centre of the earth. Enlisting the silent Hans as a guide, the trio encounter a perilous and astonishing subterranean world of natural hazards, curious sights, prehistoric beasts and sea monsters.

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...

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.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is one of the most thrilling books ever wrote…but it’s also difficult for some younger readers. This book takes the classic novels and retells it for modern readers as a beginning reader chapter book! The story tells of the adventures of Captain Nemo...

It was now two years and a half since the castaways from the balloon had been thrown on Lincoln Island, and during that period there had been no communication between them and their fellow-creatures. Once the reporter had attempted to communicate with the inhabited world by confiding to a bird a letter...

Back from the dead: the first ever zombie story Before there was Dracula, there was The Castle in Transylvania. In its first new translation in over 100 years, this is the first book to set a gothic horror story, featuring people who may or may not be dead, in Transylvania. In a remote...

Three more timeless classics loved by generation after generation. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale set in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion. Kidnapped is the tale of a young  boy kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance who teams up with a fleeing Jacobite solider...

Quelle heure est-il? demanda dame Hansen, après avoir secoué les cendres de sa pipe, dont les dernières bouffées se perdirent entre les poutres coloriées du plafond. -- Huit heures, ma mère, répondit Hulda. -- Il n'est pas probable qu'il nous arrive des voyageurs pendant la nuit;...

Édition illustrée et enrichie (illustrations originales de la collection Hetzel et dossier sur l'auteur) Dans le Pacifique, un yacht, le Sloughi, est en perdition. A bord, quinze enfants de huit à quatorze ans. Pas un adulte avec eux ; le bateau a rompu mystérieusement ses amarres dans...

I GRANDI CLASSICI PER RAGAZZI. L'impassibile Phileas Fogg non avrebbe cambiato le sue rigidissime abitudini per nulla al mondo, ma l'arrivo del nuovo domestico e un furto in banca lo spingono ad accettare una scommessa molto particolare. Inizia così un viaggio attorno al globo che include inseguimenti, colpi di scena e una puntualissima storia d'amore.