JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
Jules Verne
Contents
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 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 13: Hospitality Under the Arctic Circle
CHAPTER 14: But Arctics can be Inhospitable, too
CHAPTER 16: Boldly Down the Crater
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 24: Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ the Ground so Fast?
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 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 Electricity
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
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
CHAPTER 1 The Professor and His Family
On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock,