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  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by William Butcher ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sunless sea where they ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas

    by Jules Verne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am going to sink it.' 'You are not!' 'I am,' he coldly replied. 'Do not take it on yourself to judge me, monsieur.' French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, but discovers instead the Nautilus, a self-contained world built by its enigmatic captain. Together Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater realms of the globe, undergo a transcendental experience ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Around the World in Eighty Days

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by William Butcher ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda. Together they slice through jungles, over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus - only to get back five mintues late. Fogg ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Journey to the Moon

    by Jules Verne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?' Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon tell the daring story of the Journey to the Moon aboard an American projectile blown into the skies by gunpowder. A powerfully innovative tale, it introduces such paradigm revolutions as escape ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

    by Jules Verne, William Butcher ...
    Narrated by Patrick Barker ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 39 min

    The Adventures of Captain HatterasBy Jules VerneTranslated by William ButcherNarrated by Patrick BarkerFirst Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool. As he heads out for Melville Bay and the Arctic labyrinth, a crewman reveals himself to be John Hatteras, and his obsession, the North Pole. The captain is later abandoned by his crew and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    Jules Verne: The Biography

    by William Butcher ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    "...let me recommend an audiobook: William Butcher’s Jules Verne: The Biography ... It's a 'voyage extraordinaire' through the bittersweet life and encyclopedic imagination of one of the most popular writers of all time. Happy listening!" — William Dirda, The Washington PostFrom the established expert on the subject comes this new biography of one of the world's most successful writers. Breath ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia

    by Jules Verne, William Butcher ...
    Narrated by Patrick Barker ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in ScandinaviaBy Jules VerneTranslated with an introduction, notes andappendices by William ButcherRead by Patrick BarkerIn 1861 a struggling playwright from Nantes travelled to the wildest parts of Norway with two friends. The experience transformed him, opening his eyes to exotic adventures – and to a new mode of writing. The sole surviving chapter of his ... Read more

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    Five Weeks in a Balloon

    by Jules Verne ...
    Narrated by James Harrington ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    Dr. Samuel Fergusson, with his loyal companions, embarks on a groundbreaking African voyage aboard a hydrogen balloon. As they soar across uncharted territories, they encounter perilous landscapes, exotic wildlife, and treacherous challenges. This riveting exploration of courage and innovation highlights humanity's eternal desire to conquer the skies and unravel the mysteries of our world. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Off on a Comet

    by Jules Verne ...
    Narrated by James Harrington ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    A comet called Gallia touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people did not realize at first what had happened, and considered the collision an earthquake. ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Island (Cronos Classics)

    by Jules Verne ...
    This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents. 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 northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wine of Angels

    by Phil Rickman ...
    Series Book 1 - Merrily Watkins Mysteries
    The first in the historically rich, atmospheric mystery series featuring female exorcist Reverend Merrily WatkinsThe new vicar had never wanted a picture-postcard parish—or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she wanted to walk into a dispute over a controversial play about a 17th-century clergyman accused of witchcraft, a story that certain long-established families would rather remained obscure ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assassin's Apprentice

    The Farseer Trilogy Book 1

    by Robin Hobb ...
    Series Book 1 - Farseer Trilogy
    A gorgeously illustrated anniversary edition of the book that launched the epic Farseer Trilogy, praised by George R. R. Martin as “fantasy as it ought to be written” and Lin-Manuel Miranda as “an incredible series,” featuring a new foreword by Robin Hobb and ten illustrations.Twenty-five years ago, Robin Hobb’s first novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend ... Read more

    $4.99 USD