Jules Verne 3 hr 54 min read

Deep beneath Scotland, in an exhausted coal mine, an old engineer's investigations uncover a vast hidden world underground, and the mysteries and menaces that dwell within it.

Jules Verne's 1877 'The Black Indies' (The Underground City) is an atmospheric subterranean adventure of a whole community living below the earth. Vivid, eerie, inventive. Read it for a haunting Verne tale of life in a hidden underground realm, with a strange menace stalking its depths, in French.

In its time

Published in 1877, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

3 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).