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Jules Verne Collection: 33 Works
Doma House Publishing presents to you this Jules Verne Collection, which has been designed and formatted specifically for your Amazon Kindle.
This edition covers everything including his Extraordinary Voyage Series (23 total), the Dr. Oz short stories, and five other works. Also, you can easily navigate through chapters using the linked Table of Contents found at the start of this edition.
Purchase this Jules Verne Collection and treat yourself to the following list of works by this classic French Author:
The Extraordinary Voyages Series:
(Les Voyages Extraordinaires)
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1869)
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1874–75)
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth (1871)
From the Earth to the Moon (1867)
In Search of the Castaways (1873)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1872)
Around The Moon (1873) (‘From the Earth to the Moon’ Sequel)
The Fur Country (1873)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
The Mysterious Island (1874)
The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
Michael Strogoff (1876)
Off on a Comet (1877)
The Child of the Cavern (1877)
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
Godfrey Morgan (1883)
The Lottery Ticket (1886)
Robur the Conqueror (1887)
Topsy-Turvy (1890)
Claudius Bombarnac (1894)
Facing the Flag (1897)
An Antarctic Mystery (1898)
Dr. Ox (A Series of Short Stories):
Dr. Ox’s Experiment
Master Zacharius
A Winer amid the Ice
A Drama in the Air
Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc
Other Works:
The Pearl of Lima (1853)
The Blockade Runners (1876)
The Waif of the Cynthia
In the Year 2889 (1889)
Master of the World (1904) (Sequel to Robur the Conqueror)
This edition covers everything including his Extraordinary Voyage Series (23 total), the Dr. Oz short stories, and five other works. Also, you can easily navigate through chapters using the linked Table of Contents found at the start of this edition.
Purchase this Jules Verne Collection and treat yourself to the following list of works by this classic French Author:
The Extraordinary Voyages Series:
(Les Voyages Extraordinaires)
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1869)
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1874–75)
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth (1871)
From the Earth to the Moon (1867)
In Search of the Castaways (1873)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1872)
Around The Moon (1873) (‘From the Earth to the Moon’ Sequel)
The Fur Country (1873)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
The Mysterious Island (1874)
The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
Michael Strogoff (1876)
Off on a Comet (1877)
The Child of the Cavern (1877)
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
Godfrey Morgan (1883)
The Lottery Ticket (1886)
Robur the Conqueror (1887)
Topsy-Turvy (1890)
Claudius Bombarnac (1894)
Facing the Flag (1897)
An Antarctic Mystery (1898)
Dr. Ox (A Series of Short Stories):
Dr. Ox’s Experiment
Master Zacharius
A Winer amid the Ice
A Drama in the Air
Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc
Other Works:
The Pearl of Lima (1853)
The Blockade Runners (1876)
The Waif of the Cynthia
In the Year 2889 (1889)
Master of the World (1904) (Sequel to Robur the Conqueror)
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About the author
Jules Verne
6,434 books12k followersNovels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(1864) and
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873).
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
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October 25, 2021
This collection took me the better part of what is now almost 10 years, to read in its entirety, with regular breaks, sometimes a year or two between books. Nevertheless, Jules Verne's famed Voyages Extraordinaire are certainly a classic, always been my favorite, and are highly recommended, especially in the rather old-fashioned English translation.
(Subtracting 1 star for quite annoying typos throughout the collection, assumingly by conversion to the Kindle edition)
(Subtracting 1 star for quite annoying typos throughout the collection, assumingly by conversion to the Kindle edition)
December 13, 2016
Classic.
April 28, 2017
Jules Verne does a pretty good job of having creating interesting stories that are compelling but bogs them down in details about the geography or flora and fauna. I realize these stories were meant to teach about different climates and geographies and all that but at the same time it made them harder to read. Also, did the usefulness of pemmican in exploration have to be described every time it is mentioned? No. Overall they are good but can be slow to get through.
Five Weeks in a Balloon - 3 stars - It was very enjoyable and the descriptions of the technology used was interesting.
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras - 3 stars - It was good but Captain Hatteras really needed to calm down and be patient and he probably would have succeeded without as many hardships.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth - 2 stars - Axel had a temperament that changed too quickly for me to really care about him, Hans was awesome though. It is fascinating to read the completely false theories that scientists had about what was at the center of the Earth.
From the Earth to the Moon - 3 stars - "Selenites" gotta love that word. This definitely ends on a cliff hanger and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel Around the Moon.
In Search of the Castaways - 3.5 stars - This would be an awesome book if the point wasn't to describe the flora and fauna of the different countries and describe who discovered what. I mean its got natural disasters galore (earthquakes, volcanoes, twisters, hurricanes, floods etc.), helpful natives, wolves, bandits, cannibals, characters of a dubious nature, romance, and a mysterious note. This is all buried under a lot of descriptions that don't advance the plot at all and which slowed it down way too much.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 2 stars - Why is this considered a classic?! Eighty present of it didn't further the plot and reads like a text book. Jules Verne had an awesome character in Captain Nemo and despite hinting at his back story the book ends without resolving or explaining anything. I probably would have liked this better if I didn't have these expectations that it would be the most awesome of this collection since it is the one with the most movies.
Around the Moon - 3 stars - A good sequel but hilariously wrong. They got rid of their waste by opening the door and throwing it out. How about explosive decompression?
The Fur Country - 3 stars - This is more religious than any of the Jules Verne's other books I have read so far. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong and yet only one of the 21 characters becomes suicidal. It is more of a story of faith than anything. They do all that they can to survive and leave the rest up to Providence.
Around the World in Eighty Days - 3 stars - What is with Jules Verne and creating mysterious characters whose back story is never explained, first Captain Nemo and now Phileas Fogg. The difficulties of travel on various vehicles was enlightening but it was at times hard to tell how much time had passed. The voyage from Japan to the United States got like a sentence whereas from Hong Kong to Shanghai got a couple of chapters. I did like Phileas Fogg and in particular how he kept his calm no matter what.
The Mysterious Island - 3.5 stars - Human ingenuity is amazing and yet I doubt the castaways would have been able to accomplish as much if the island hadn't been so unusually fertile and Cyrus Harding wasn't an encyclopedia of useful knowledge. I would have liked to see Harding show some of the strain of leadership and everyone's expectations.
The Survivors of the Chancellor - 3 stars - This is different from the other books in that there aren't really any descriptions of the flora and fauna.
Michael Strogoff - 3 stars - Trip across Russia in a time of war. It resolved really quickly, too quickly in fact, but other than that it was good.
Off on a Comet - 2 stars - I had a hard time with this one. It has an interesting premise but astronomy doesn't interest me as much as using materials at hand to survive and even thrive and there wasn't a lot of that going on in this story.
The Underground City - 3.5 stars - Shorter than his other stories and the plot was engaging. It seems like the really only danger in a mine according to Jules Verne is fire-damp (carbureted hydrogen), I would have thought cave-ins were just as likely and dangerous. Also, hy would you want to live in a mine?
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen - 2 stars - This has a very interesting plot but loses itself in being informative. An entire chapter was used to talk about Dr. Livingstone and then to tell us that he died and therefore has nothing to do with the story. WHY?
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - 3 stars - This started out really slow. The first half was really just exposition and of course the details of Amazon river and everything along its banks. The second half has the story of blackmail and a cryptic message from a dead man, far more interesting and easier to read than the first half and it kind of made up for the first half.
Godfrey Morgan - 2 stars - Jules Verne loved Daniel Defoe's work because this is just Robinson Crusoe lite.
Ticket 9672 - 3 stars - This was different because instead of following the world traveler we stayed with those at home. Granted those that stayed at "home" did quite a bit of traveling; they just didn't travel as far.
Robur the Conqueror - 2 stars - Robur did a lot of things that I think are contradictory to what his stated goal was. He also went about trying to accomplish his goal in the most roundabout way imaginable and it bit him in the butt. I did find it funny that Jem Chip being a vegetarian was mentioned every time he was talked about.
The Purchase of the North Pole, or Topsy Turvy - 1.5 stars - Captain Hatteras's journey to the north pole is completely ignored which is odd. Maston, Nicholl, and Barbicane are arrogant and self-centered. They don't care about the effects (lose of life and destruction of property) of what they are trying to do except the profits they gain from having bought the area around the north pole.
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent - 2.5 stars - The story is good but I didn't like the way it was presented. If it had been written as if it were a series of news paper columns instead of taking about all the things he was going to or wanted to write about I would have liked it better.
Facing the Flag - 3 stars - It was good. I did have an issue with the treatment of Thomas Roch. He is said to be a genius with a past of creating great marvels and yet no one is willing to give him credit to at least prove his latest creation.
An Antarctic Mystery - 3 stars - This is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym which I haven't read but Jules Verne does a good job of summarizing it so I didn't feel lost at any point.
Doctor Ox's Experiment - 2 stars - Doctor Ox is a thoroughly unscrupulous character. His experiment takes precedence over everything even the safety of others.
Master Zacharius - 1 star - I think there was some moral about not taking science so far that it overpowers or replaces faith but I don't really know. It also might have just been about a crazy old craftsman.
A Winter Amid the Ice - 3.5 stars - A good adventure/love story.
A Drama in the Air - 2.5 stars - Jules Verne is a big fan of aeronautics and yet he wrote a story that lists a bunch of aeronautic disasters in the middle of describing one. He ends by saying that these disasters shouldn't discourage adventurers and inventors. Way to be encouraging Verne, way to be encouraging.
The Fourtieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc - 2 stars - This is by both Paul and Jules Verne. It describes a lot of mountain climbing disasters and ends with saying it wasn't worth it. For someone who spends the rest of his stories telling how great the achievement is this seems out of place.
The Pearl of Lima - 1 star - I can't say why I didn't like this book without giving away the ending. It was great until the last page.
The Blockade Runners - 3.5 stars - Jules Verne does a lot of love stories set in times of peril or war. This one is during the Civil War.
The Waif of the Cynthia - 3.5 stars - A good adventure and mystery. It started slow but picked up quickly.
The Year 2885 - 3 stars - Wow, Verne thought the mean life expectance going from 37 to 52 would take one thousand years. Interesting look at what someone from 1885 thought a thousand years of technological advancement would look like.
Master of the World - 2 stars - This took a long time to get to the point. Verne repeatedly related some facts about geography and said they were important to the story and yet they weren't. I would have understood it without all the extra info.
Five Weeks in a Balloon - 3 stars - It was very enjoyable and the descriptions of the technology used was interesting.
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras - 3 stars - It was good but Captain Hatteras really needed to calm down and be patient and he probably would have succeeded without as many hardships.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth - 2 stars - Axel had a temperament that changed too quickly for me to really care about him, Hans was awesome though. It is fascinating to read the completely false theories that scientists had about what was at the center of the Earth.
From the Earth to the Moon - 3 stars - "Selenites" gotta love that word. This definitely ends on a cliff hanger and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel Around the Moon.
In Search of the Castaways - 3.5 stars - This would be an awesome book if the point wasn't to describe the flora and fauna of the different countries and describe who discovered what. I mean its got natural disasters galore (earthquakes, volcanoes, twisters, hurricanes, floods etc.), helpful natives, wolves, bandits, cannibals, characters of a dubious nature, romance, and a mysterious note. This is all buried under a lot of descriptions that don't advance the plot at all and which slowed it down way too much.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 2 stars - Why is this considered a classic?! Eighty present of it didn't further the plot and reads like a text book. Jules Verne had an awesome character in Captain Nemo and despite hinting at his back story the book ends without resolving or explaining anything. I probably would have liked this better if I didn't have these expectations that it would be the most awesome of this collection since it is the one with the most movies.
Around the Moon - 3 stars - A good sequel but hilariously wrong. They got rid of their waste by opening the door and throwing it out. How about explosive decompression?
The Fur Country - 3 stars - This is more religious than any of the Jules Verne's other books I have read so far. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong and yet only one of the 21 characters becomes suicidal. It is more of a story of faith than anything. They do all that they can to survive and leave the rest up to Providence.
Around the World in Eighty Days - 3 stars - What is with Jules Verne and creating mysterious characters whose back story is never explained, first Captain Nemo and now Phileas Fogg. The difficulties of travel on various vehicles was enlightening but it was at times hard to tell how much time had passed. The voyage from Japan to the United States got like a sentence whereas from Hong Kong to Shanghai got a couple of chapters. I did like Phileas Fogg and in particular how he kept his calm no matter what.
The Mysterious Island - 3.5 stars - Human ingenuity is amazing and yet I doubt the castaways would have been able to accomplish as much if the island hadn't been so unusually fertile and Cyrus Harding wasn't an encyclopedia of useful knowledge. I would have liked to see Harding show some of the strain of leadership and everyone's expectations.
The Survivors of the Chancellor - 3 stars - This is different from the other books in that there aren't really any descriptions of the flora and fauna.
Michael Strogoff - 3 stars - Trip across Russia in a time of war. It resolved really quickly, too quickly in fact, but other than that it was good.
Off on a Comet - 2 stars - I had a hard time with this one. It has an interesting premise but astronomy doesn't interest me as much as using materials at hand to survive and even thrive and there wasn't a lot of that going on in this story.
The Underground City - 3.5 stars - Shorter than his other stories and the plot was engaging. It seems like the really only danger in a mine according to Jules Verne is fire-damp (carbureted hydrogen), I would have thought cave-ins were just as likely and dangerous. Also, hy would you want to live in a mine?
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen - 2 stars - This has a very interesting plot but loses itself in being informative. An entire chapter was used to talk about Dr. Livingstone and then to tell us that he died and therefore has nothing to do with the story. WHY?
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon - 3 stars - This started out really slow. The first half was really just exposition and of course the details of Amazon river and everything along its banks. The second half has the story of blackmail and a cryptic message from a dead man, far more interesting and easier to read than the first half and it kind of made up for the first half.
Godfrey Morgan - 2 stars - Jules Verne loved Daniel Defoe's work because this is just Robinson Crusoe lite.
Ticket 9672 - 3 stars - This was different because instead of following the world traveler we stayed with those at home. Granted those that stayed at "home" did quite a bit of traveling; they just didn't travel as far.
Robur the Conqueror - 2 stars - Robur did a lot of things that I think are contradictory to what his stated goal was. He also went about trying to accomplish his goal in the most roundabout way imaginable and it bit him in the butt. I did find it funny that Jem Chip being a vegetarian was mentioned every time he was talked about.
The Purchase of the North Pole, or Topsy Turvy - 1.5 stars - Captain Hatteras's journey to the north pole is completely ignored which is odd. Maston, Nicholl, and Barbicane are arrogant and self-centered. They don't care about the effects (lose of life and destruction of property) of what they are trying to do except the profits they gain from having bought the area around the north pole.
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent - 2.5 stars - The story is good but I didn't like the way it was presented. If it had been written as if it were a series of news paper columns instead of taking about all the things he was going to or wanted to write about I would have liked it better.
Facing the Flag - 3 stars - It was good. I did have an issue with the treatment of Thomas Roch. He is said to be a genius with a past of creating great marvels and yet no one is willing to give him credit to at least prove his latest creation.
An Antarctic Mystery - 3 stars - This is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym which I haven't read but Jules Verne does a good job of summarizing it so I didn't feel lost at any point.
Doctor Ox's Experiment - 2 stars - Doctor Ox is a thoroughly unscrupulous character. His experiment takes precedence over everything even the safety of others.
Master Zacharius - 1 star - I think there was some moral about not taking science so far that it overpowers or replaces faith but I don't really know. It also might have just been about a crazy old craftsman.
A Winter Amid the Ice - 3.5 stars - A good adventure/love story.
A Drama in the Air - 2.5 stars - Jules Verne is a big fan of aeronautics and yet he wrote a story that lists a bunch of aeronautic disasters in the middle of describing one. He ends by saying that these disasters shouldn't discourage adventurers and inventors. Way to be encouraging Verne, way to be encouraging.
The Fourtieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc - 2 stars - This is by both Paul and Jules Verne. It describes a lot of mountain climbing disasters and ends with saying it wasn't worth it. For someone who spends the rest of his stories telling how great the achievement is this seems out of place.
The Pearl of Lima - 1 star - I can't say why I didn't like this book without giving away the ending. It was great until the last page.
The Blockade Runners - 3.5 stars - Jules Verne does a lot of love stories set in times of peril or war. This one is during the Civil War.
The Waif of the Cynthia - 3.5 stars - A good adventure and mystery. It started slow but picked up quickly.
The Year 2885 - 3 stars - Wow, Verne thought the mean life expectance going from 37 to 52 would take one thousand years. Interesting look at what someone from 1885 thought a thousand years of technological advancement would look like.
Master of the World - 2 stars - This took a long time to get to the point. Verne repeatedly related some facts about geography and said they were important to the story and yet they weren't. I would have understood it without all the extra info.
May 18, 2020
I started this after I had finished The Illiad; after I had slogged though everything H.P. Lovecraft had ever written; after I had read Sherlock and Watson solve every puzzle thrown at them, and I still wasn't ready for the monstrosity that is the Jules Verne Collection: 33 Works.
I'm reviewing this while still reading it. I've been reading it for (more than? over?) a year.
Like some reviewers, they took breaks between stories - I've since replenished my reading fatigue on Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Tasmyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth - but this collection of stories from one of the founders of science fiction is not for the faint of heart. These stories are not short; they are not light mental apertifs. The long ones are verbose and dated; the shorter ones are dense and technical. These are proper science fiction novels, and I never knew that until I picked this collection up, as I had never read his popularized stories before now.
I understand why people adapt Verne's works into plays or movies: his world building is immaculate. I have a very distinct idea of Nemo's submarine and a mental topographical map of Lincoln Island. He describes everything in detail, down to the horses. This does lead to exhaustion and a feeling that one will never get through a chapter in a reasonable amount of time, because you're too busy reading an encyclopedic list of all of the fish in every sea that was known to man in the 1890s. However, it has its moments of spark; there are still moments of danger and excitement: I was truly stressed out reading The Fur Country and The Survivors of the Chancellor.
From a technical standpoint, the electronic edition is clunky, and did affect the rating. Because of the format, the progression tracker is thrown off; I've been at 47% for most of the year, even when starting new stories, and the page numbers can't be properly identified by my Kindle. I'm a rewards-based person, so watching the "time left to finish a book" is always a good motivator for me to keep reading (I wolfed down Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in exactly 5h55m because I wanted to beat my own estimated read time of 6h) so it's been really demotivating at times to still be at the 40 hour mark when I'm completing entire books.
Besides the density of the text and the format of the electronic edition, I feel like it's a great addition to my library of "Classical Things I Read Before My Memory Went to Hell", and it's good for anyone who has a similar one.
I'm reviewing this while still reading it. I've been reading it for (more than? over?) a year.
Like some reviewers, they took breaks between stories - I've since replenished my reading fatigue on Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Tasmyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth - but this collection of stories from one of the founders of science fiction is not for the faint of heart. These stories are not short; they are not light mental apertifs. The long ones are verbose and dated; the shorter ones are dense and technical. These are proper science fiction novels, and I never knew that until I picked this collection up, as I had never read his popularized stories before now.
I understand why people adapt Verne's works into plays or movies: his world building is immaculate. I have a very distinct idea of Nemo's submarine and a mental topographical map of Lincoln Island. He describes everything in detail, down to the horses. This does lead to exhaustion and a feeling that one will never get through a chapter in a reasonable amount of time, because you're too busy reading an encyclopedic list of all of the fish in every sea that was known to man in the 1890s. However, it has its moments of spark; there are still moments of danger and excitement: I was truly stressed out reading The Fur Country and The Survivors of the Chancellor.
From a technical standpoint, the electronic edition is clunky, and did affect the rating. Because of the format, the progression tracker is thrown off; I've been at 47% for most of the year, even when starting new stories, and the page numbers can't be properly identified by my Kindle. I'm a rewards-based person, so watching the "time left to finish a book" is always a good motivator for me to keep reading (I wolfed down Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in exactly 5h55m because I wanted to beat my own estimated read time of 6h) so it's been really demotivating at times to still be at the 40 hour mark when I'm completing entire books.
Besides the density of the text and the format of the electronic edition, I feel like it's a great addition to my library of "Classical Things I Read Before My Memory Went to Hell", and it's good for anyone who has a similar one.
January 17, 2017
I read the entire collection when i was about 12-14 years old. A delight for any adventure, mystery and SF lover. each story, apart from the three main genre features mentioned above, praises the spirit of freedom,courage and fight personified in Verne s ultimate great characters.
March 16, 2018
I read FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON...it was EXCELLENT!!! I am amazed at the accuracy even though it was written so long ago!
May 23, 2019
A classic
It's a good read. Important for any one who wants to be a writer. The whole collection is wonderful and worth the time.
It's a good read. Important for any one who wants to be a writer. The whole collection is wonderful and worth the time.
November 2, 2015
Well Have read only the Mysterious Island and Around the world in 80 days
November 15, 2015
The best $1.99 cents that l spent in my life.Truly once finished you have been around the world and didn't worry how many days it took.
August 20, 2018
... the last volume in the series I read through the years 1994.
Verne's books have a special and alert rhythm for those times.
Verne's books have a special and alert rhythm for those times.
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