num_pages: 195
description: The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne’s imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term “science fiction,” Journey to the Centre of the Earth is “inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began.”
language: English
title: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
titlecomplete: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
characters: Otto Liedenbrock, Gräuben, Axel, Hans Bjelke
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, France, Adventure, French Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 192847
places: Snæfellsjökull, Reykjavik (Reykjavík), Hamburg, Stromboli, Inside Earth
publisher: Modern Library