Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo,...

An illustrated version of Jules Verne's 1865 novel about launching a space ship to the moon using a Space Gun.

The children of Captain Grant embark on a grand adventure when they use a partial, damaged message found in a bottle to track their father who has reportedly been lost at sea.

A novel originally written in 1863 presents a forecast of Paris in 1960, a world where money and technology control society and a young poet finds himself out of place in the materialistic, mechanistic society.