Seven Novels: Complete and Unabridged [B1366]

2005 HCDJ, 10x7-inches, 1196-pages of smallish print, in nice clean condition. Writing from France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne expressed the universal fascination with adventure and exploration. Featuring Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Mysterious Island, this omnibus offers a unique compilation of seven of Verne's Voyages extraordinaire, stories that extrapolated developing technology into marvelous fiction. This volume offers readers a generous introduction to Jules Verne, whose books are as alive today as they were for readers, new to the ideas expressed in them, during his time.

Jules Verne: Seven Novels is a part of Barnes & Noble's Library of Essential Writers. Each title in the series presents the finest works - complete and unabridged - from one of the greatest writers in literature in magnificent, elegantly designed hard-back editions. Every volume also includes an original introduction that provides the reader with enlightening information on the writer's life and works.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Loved these stories. For the time it was written, what an adventure!"; "This is a wonderful hardback collection of seven novels by one of the godfathers of modern science-fiction or 'Scientific Romance', as it was called back then). While the pacing of many of these tales may seem dated to modern readers, they are all still highly imaginative and entertaining reads, with a few - such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon - laying the foundation for the popular subgenre known as Steampunk, where more modern technologies are depicted in a Victorian setting and/or given a Victorian aesthetic. Highly recommended for any fan of classic science fiction."; "After impulse buying it from a thrift store I've been chewing through this book for almost three years. It's a long read and often exhausting at times but I absolutely adore Jules Verne. Perfect for long trips and spare reading time."; "I went into reading this collection not really knowing what the stories were about, although I recognized many of the titles. Never saw any movies or anything. I really enjoyed these books! For being written in the 1860s and after, it's amazing to me the technological things that Verne wrote about. No wonder he was Doc Brown's favorite author. Highly recommend!"