A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

A classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne published on 1864

This app contains a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre in 1864). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.

This 1877 translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson is considered the most faithful, though it has some slight rewrites.

contents:

Chapter I: The professor and his family

Chapter II: A mystery to be solved at any price

Chapter III: The runic writing exercises the professor

Chapter IV: The enemy to be starved into submission

Chapter V: Famine, then victory, followed by dismay

Chapter VI: Exciting discussions about an unparalleled enterprise

Chapter VII: A woman's courage

Chapter VIII: Serious preparations for vertical descent

Chapter IX: Iceland! but what next?

Chapter X: Interesting conversations with Icelandic savants

Chapter XI: A guide found to the centre of the earth

Chapter XII: A barren land

Chapter XIII: Hospitality under the arctic circle

Chapter XIV: But arctics can be inhospitable, too

Chapter XV: Snaefell at last

Chapter XVI: Boldly down the crater

Chapter XVII: Vertical descent

Chapter XVIII: The wonders of terrestrial depths

Chapter XIX: Geological studies in situ

Chapter XX: The first signs of distress

Chapter XXI: Compassion fuses the professor's heart

Chapter XXII: Total failure of water

Chapter XXIII: Water discovered

Chapter XXIV: Well said, old mole! canst thou work i' the ground so fast?

Chapter XXV: De profundis

Chapter XXVI: The worst peril of all

Chapter XXVII: Lost in the bowels of the earth

Chapter XXVIII: The rescue in the whispering gallery

Chapter XXIX: Thalatta! thalatta!

Chapter XXX: A new mare internum

Chapter XXXI: Preparations for a voyage of discovery

Chapter XXXII: Wonders of the deep

Chapter XXXIII: A battle of monsters

Chapter XXXIV: The great geyser

Chapter XXXV: An electric storm

Chapter XXXVI: Calm philosophic discussions

Chapter XXXVII: The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology

Chapter XXXVIII: The professor in his chair again

Chapter XXXIX: Forest scenery illuminated by eletricity

Chapter XL: Preparations for blasting a passage to the centre of the earth

Chapter XLI: The great explosion and the rush down below

Chapter XLII: Headlong speed upward through the horrors of darkness

Chapter XLIII: Shot out of a volcano at last!

Chapter XLIV: Sunny lands in the blue mediterranean

Chapter XLV: All's well that ends well

This work was published before January 1, 1923, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.