I have had a ridiculous amount of fun this year listening to classic novels as audiobooks. When Audible offered a freebie (I think it was a freebie) of Journey to the Center of the Earth read by Tim Curry, I was excited – Tim Curry! Come on. It almost didn't matter what it was; I kind of place Cu...
"The Mysterious Island" is a novel by Jules Verne first published by Hetzel in 1874. The original edition contained quite a few illustrations done by Jules Férat. My edition has quite a few of the illustrations but originally there were even more. The novel is linked by certain characters to tw...
Five Weeks in A Balloon by Jules VerneAwe, inspiration, joy, amusement, hope, interest, pride, gratitude, serenity and most of all love... These are the elements, feelings or incentives to feel these emotions that we should look for in the stories we read, in order to obtain Positivity. For the t...
من جديد أنهي كتابا، هو هنا رواية كلاسيكية ، ومن جديد أجد نفسي في حيرة كيف أكتب مراجعتي ومن أين أبدأ وأي النقاط أتناول :))رواية كلاسيكية ممتعة لجول فيرن ... جول فيرن الفرنسي المولود في 1828 والذي ألهب خيال أبناء جيله برواياته التي تندرج تحت تصنيف الخيال العلمي، وقد تم انجاز العديد من الاختراعات ال...
I read Le Sphinix des Glaces immediately after the novel to which it is a sequel, that-is-to-say Edgar Allen Poe’s “Adverntures of Arthur Gordon Pym”. I believe that this is the best if not the only way to enjoy “Le Sphinx des Glaces.” Certainly I strongly advise against reading “Le Sphinix” to a...
Fiction. Written during a time when there were still blank spaces on the map, when Verne could slap a volcano down on the North Pole and no one could call him on it, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras might seem fantastic to us today with its temperate polar waters teaming with wildlife (and flyi...
A string of coincidences in this novel ruined the pleasure of reading it. I was anyway indulgent with credibility for Jules Verne's novels, but in this one, there are a lot of events tied to the plot that are just visible from the outer space that it is a fabricated story. As I like very much fro...
I enjoyed this book, but I don't think I would have if I hadn't traveled in (and been a bit obsessed with) Central Asia. The plot was not as interesting to me as the detailed descriptions of the various cities and towns that Claudius Bombarnac visits during his trip between Baku (modern Azerbaija...
Supposedly, Jules Verne is, in France, considered a “travel and adventure” writer, and is considered one of the great French authors, along with Zola, Hugo, and Dumas. Although I don’t consider him one of the greatest authors I’ve read, I have no doubt that Jules Verne is a great author, and well...
