Jules Verne remains the most celebrated 19th-century writer of science fiction. This volume reprints his three most popular novels.

In Journey to the Centre of the Earth, an obsessive German professor and his nephew travel towards the earth’s core in the steps of a medieval explorer beneath an Icelandic volcano where they discover a lost world. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is famous for its portrayal of the Byronic Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, in which he explores the ocean while wreaking vengeance on mankind for their wickedness. In Round the World in Eighty Days, a starchy Englishman suspected of robbing the Bank of England accepts a bet that he cannot circumnavigate the globe in that time, and proceeds to do so, accompanied by his resourceful valet, Passepartout.? 

The three novels combine fantasy and rich local colour with true learning and cod science in a mixture which attracts readers of all ages.

This new edition makes available rare nineteenth-century translations with an up-to-date introduction and bibliography, and a comprehensive chronology of Verne's life, work, and times.