Jules Verne ~6 hr read

Following a coded runic message in an old manuscript, Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew descend through an Icelandic volcano toward the astonishing world at the center of the Earth.

This is the original French text of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. Vivid, thrilling, foundational. Read it for the beloved Verne classic of subterranean adventure in the master's own language, a descent into the planet's depths, past prehistoric seas and monsters, one of the founding wonder-voyages of science fiction.

In its time

Published in 1864, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).