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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues U... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portabl... ... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...lection of the seas of China and Japan. These fish, more numerous than the birds of the air, came, attracted, no doubt, by the brilliant focus of the ... ...alked amidst a shoal of little fishes of all kinds, more numerous than the birds of the air, and also more agile; but no aquatic game worthy of a shot... .... As soon as I had changed my clothes I went up on to the platform, and, a prey to conflicting emotions, I sat down near the binnacle. Captain Nemo jo... ...sentatives of the animal kingdom in the interior of this volcano. Birds of prey hovered here and there in the shadows, or fled from their nests on the... ...sea-mammals covering them, and I involuntarily sought for old Proteus, the mythological shepherd who watched these immense flocks of Neptune. There we...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...assics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...nd the head when the blood is rushing upwards with undue violence. I was a prey to a kind of hallucination; I was stifling; I wanted air. Unconsciousl... ...h the night terror had hold of me. I spent it dreaming of abysses. I was a prey to delirium. I felt myself grasped by the Professor’s sinewy hand, dra... ...e comforting voice accompa- nied our steps. With my reviving spirits these mythological notions seemed to come unbidden. As for my uncle, he was begin... ...m the shores. I gaze upward in the air. Why should not some of the strange birds restored by the immortal Cuvier again flap their ‘sail-broad vans’ in... ...to and fro in the heavy air. In the upper- most regions of the air immense birds, more powerful than the cassowary, and larger than the ostrich, sprea...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...

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