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Jules Verne. A Journey to the Center of the Earth: The Classic Unabridged Malleson Translation
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 The Professor and His Family
Chapter 2 A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price
Chapter 3 The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor
Chapter 4 The Enemy to Be Starved into Submission
Chapter 5 Famine, Then Victory, Followed by Dismay
Chapter 6 Exciting Discussions about an Unparalleled Enterprise
Chapter 7 A Woman’s Courage
Chapter 8 Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent
Chapter 9 Iceland! But What Next?
Chapter 10 Interesting Conversations with Icelandic Savants
Chapter 11 A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth
Chapter 12 A Barren Land
Chapter 13 Hospitality under the Arctic Circle
Chapter 14 But Arctics can be Inhospitable, Too
Chapter 15 Snæfell at Last
Chapter 16 Boldly down the Crater
Chapter 17 Vertical Descent
Chapter 18 The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths
Chapter 19 Geological Studies in Situ
Chapter 20 The First Signs of Distress
Chapter 21 Compassion Fuses the Professor’s Heart
Chapter 22 Total Failure of Water
Chapter 23 Water Discovered
Chapter 24 Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ the Ground So Fast?
Chapter 25 De Profundis
Chapter 26 The Worst Peril of All
Chapter 27 Lost in the Bowels of the Earth
Chapter 28 The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery
Chapter 29 Thalatta! Thalatta!
Chapter 30 A New Mare Internum
Chapter 31 Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery
Chapter 32 Wonders of the Deep
Chapter 33 A Battle of Monsters
Chapter 34 The Great Geyser
Chapter 35 An Electric Storm
Chapter 36 Calm Philosophic Discussions
Chapter 37 The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology
Chapter 38 The Professor in His Chair Again
Chapter 39 Forest Scenery Illuminated by Eletricity
Chapter 40 Preparations for Blasting a Passage to the Centre of the Earth
Chapter 41 The Great Explosion and the Rush down below
Chapter 42 Headlong Speed Upward through the Horrors of Darkness
Chapter 43 Shot out of a Volcano at Last!
Chapter 44 Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean
Chapter 45 All’s Well That Ends Well
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Jules Verne
The Classic Unabridged Malleson Translation
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I answered not a word, and for a very good reason. My eyes had fallen upon a charming picture, suspended against the wall, the portrait of Gräuben. My uncle’s ward was at that time at Altona, staying with a relation, and in her absence I was very downhearted; for I may confess it to you now, the pretty Virlandaise and the professor’s nephew loved each other with a patience and a calmness entirely German. We had become engaged unknown to my uncle, who was too much taken up with geology to be able to enter into such feelings as ours. Gräuben was a lovely blue-eyed blonde, rather given to gravity and seriousness; but that did not prevent her from loving me very sincerely. As for me, I adored her, if there is such a word in the German language. Thus it happened that the picture of my pretty Virlandaise threw me in a moment out of the world of realities into that of memory and fancy.
There looked down upon me the faithful companion of my labours and my recreations. Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle’s precious specimens; she and I labelled them together. Mademoiselle Gräuben was an accomplished mineralogist; she could have taught a few things to a savant. She was fond of investigating abstruse scientific questions. What pleasant hours we have spent in study; and how often I envied the very stones which she handled with her charming fingers.
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