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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

By Jules Verne

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Cover: The fight between the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus, illustration for Voyage au centre de la Terre by Édouard Riou (1833–1900) · Wikimedia Commons (scan from the National Library of Poland, Polona) · Public domain

Journey to the Centre of the Earth, also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Center of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel written by French novelist Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition. Professor Otto Lidenbrock is the tale's central figure, an eccentric German scientist who decodes a message from a 16th century Icelandic alchemist who claims to have reached to the very center of the earth via volcanic tubes in the crater of the celebrated inactive Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: My Uncle Makes a Great Discovery
  2. 2: The Mysterious Parchment
  3. 3: An Astounding Discovery
  4. 4: We Start on the Journey
  5. 5: First Lessons in Climbing
  6. 6: Our Voyage to Iceland
  7. 7: Conversation and Discovery
  8. 8: The Eider-Down Hunter--Off at Last
  9. 9: Our Start--We Meet with Adventures by the Way
  10. 10: Traveling in Iceland
  11. 11: We Reach Mount Sneffels--the "Reykir"
  12. 12: The Ascent of Mount Sneffels
  13. 13: The Shadow of Scartaris
  14. 14: The Real Journey Commences
  15. 15: We Continue Our Descent
  16. 16: The Eastern Tunnel
  17. 17: Deeper and Deeper--the Coal Mine
  18. 18: The Wrong Road!
  19. 19: The Western Gallery--a New Route
  20. 20: Water, Where Is It? a Bitter Disappointment
  21. 21: Under the Ocean
  22. 22: Sunday Below Ground
  23. 23: Alone
  24. 24: Chapter 24
  25. 25: The Whispering Gallery
  26. 26: A Rapid Recovery
  27. 27: The Central Sea
  28. 28: Launching the Raft
  29. 29: On the Waters--a Raft Voyage
  30. 30: Terrific Saurian Combat
  31. 31: The Sea Monster
  32. 32: The Battle of the Elements
  33. 33: Our Route Reversed
  34. 34: A Voyage of Discovery
  35. 35: Discovery upon Discovery
  36. 36: What Is It?
  37. 37: The Mysterious Dagger
  38. 38: No Outlet--Blasting the Rock
  39. 39: The Explosion and Its Results
  40. 40: The Ape Gigans
  41. 41: Hunger
  42. 42: The Volcanic Shaft
  43. 43: Daylight at Last
  44. 44: The Journey Ended