Jules Verne
37 Bücher
- If you've read Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym and felt cheated by that ending, this is Verne picking up the thread, sending Captain Len Guy south to find his lost brother. Slow and log-book methodical in places, but the pull toward that final ice field is real.
- Phileas Fogg is so rigidly punctual he fires a servant over shaving water two degrees too cool, and watching that composure survive missed steamers, a rescue in India, and a detective tailing him is half the fun. Light, quick, good company on a trip.
- Le docteur Fergusson, son ami Kennedy, chasseur sceptique, et son joyeux domestique Joe traversent l'Afrique en ballon à hydrogène dans le premier roman de Verne. Attends-toi à beaucoup de géographie et de calculs de gaz entre les orages et les frayeurs, et pour le lecteur qui aime ça, c'est la moitié du plaisir.
- O Gun Club de Baltimore, um bando de artilheiros reformados a quem faltam membros e que já não têm em que atirar, decide disparar um canhão gigante contra a Lua. Verne está sobretudo a divertir-se com a fanfarronice e os cálculos americanos, e o francês Michel Ardan rouba todas as cenas.
- Dick's a fifteen-year-old suddenly running a whaling ship after disaster wipes out the crew, and Verne makes you feel every mile of that responsibility. Fair warning, it turns darker on land, taking hard aim at the slave trade, and daffy Cousin Benedict chasing insects is the one bit of relief.
- Lesser-known Verne, but fun: a half-mad inventor with a doomsday weapon gets kidnapped to a pirate's hideout inside a hollow island, and you watch it all through his keeper's secret diary. Pulpy and a bit stiff in places, though the villain's lair alone earns its keep.
- You’ll enjoy the jaunty mix of balloon engineering, African geography, and danger, especially with Fergusson’s cool determination balanced by Kennedy’s skepticism and Joe’s irrepressible humor. It’s episodic and very much a nineteenth-century adventure, so the old-fashioned colonial attitudes can be a rough patch, but the sense of practical wonder carries you along.
- Verne's poking fun at Americans here, and it lands: a club of bored Civil War artillerymen decide to fire a cannon at the moon, and Michel Ardan cheerfully volunteers to ride inside. You'll skim some ballistics math, but the deadpan enthusiasm carries you right through.
- Phileas Fogg scommette con i suoi compagni del Reform Club che farà il giro del mondo in ottanta giorni e parte quella sera stessa, con il nuovo domestico Passepartout che gli arranca dietro. La calma imperturbabile di Fogg contro il caos di Passepartout lo rende un divertimento leggero e svelto.
- Verne at his most cheerful: a half-eaten note in a bottle sends Lord Glenarvan's crew chasing the 37th parallel around the globe, and the scatterbrained geographer Paganel (who boarded the wrong ship entirely) steals every scene. Pure adventure, earthquakes and condors included, no deep themes required.
- You’ll enjoy the wonderfully odd blend of scientific curiosity and pulpy adventure, especially Professor Lidenbrock’s impatient enthusiasm and Axel’s much more human fear as they descend through Sneffels volcano. The underground landscapes feel genuinely strange, though the old-fashioned science and brisk exposition can take some getting used to.
- Cinq hommes s'échappent en ballon de Richmond assiégée et s'écrasent sur une île inconnue du Pacifique, où l'ingénieur Cyrus Smith les guide pour fabriquer à partir de rien des briques, du fer et des explosifs. C'est Robinson Crusoé pour ceux qui aiment savoir comment les choses sont faites, avec un mystère sous la surface.
- You get a brisk, old-fashioned adventure as Michael Strogoff crosses Siberia under an assumed identity, with Nadia Fedor and the bickering journalists Blount and Jolivet adding warmth and humor. It’s more melodramatic than Verne’s science fiction, but the journey has real momentum and nerve.
- Dois entusiastas dos balões, dados a discussões, são raptados pelo misterioso engenheiro Robur e levados à volta do mundo a bordo do Albatros, a sua máquina voadora mais pesada do que o ar. É um Verne mais ligeiro, um relato de viagem visto do céu, com um herói espinhoso e arrogante.
- You get the pleasure of being trapped in a tiny projectile with Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan, whose arguments and practical ingenuity keep the lunar voyage lively. The science is wonderfully speculative and often dated, but the cramped camaraderie and odd technical details make this a charming, slightly eccentric read.
- You get a wonderfully stubborn Captain Hatteras, a crew pushed to the edge of the Arctic, and Doctor Clawbonny cheerfully explaining everything from icebergs to polar wildlife. It’s slow in places and full of nineteenth-century speculation, but the cold, danger, and Hatteras’s consuming obsession give it a strange, hard-edged pull.
- You’re here for Jules Verne’s fascination with machinery, mines, and whole communities hidden underground, with engineer James Starr and the mysterious Nell giving the adventure some human warmth. The suspense is old-fashioned and occasionally creaky, but the coal-lit setting stays wonderfully strange.
- You get a wonderfully odd Arctic adventure: Captain Hobson’s Hudson’s Bay expedition finds its fort stranded on a floating ice island, while Mrs. Paulina Barnett keeps up her observations and nerve. The pacing is patient and the geography-heavy detail is part of the bargain.
- You get a wonderfully unusual river journey here: Joam Garral and his family travel down the Amazon on an enormous floating farm, while a buried mystery shadows the celebration. It’s leisurely and full of period geography, but the raft, the river, and the family tension stay with you.
- If you like watching clever people build things from nothing, this is that pleasure stretched over an island: Cyrus Smith and his castaways make pottery, tools, even a telegraph from scratch. Verne lingers on the how of everything, so come patient, not hungry for action.
- You get a lively railway travelogue through Central Asia, with the boastful French reporter Claudius Bombarnac turning every fellow passenger into a story. It’s more interested in landscapes, timetables, and comic observation than suspense, so its leisurely, fact-loving pace suits you if you enjoy Verne at his most curious and playful.
- Fair warning, this is Verne at his bleakest: a burning cotton ship, then a raft, then hunger doing terrible things to decent people. But Kazallon's diary entries get shorter and rawer as hope shrinks, and if you can stomach the drawing of lots, it stays with you.
- You get a gentler Verne here, set among Norwegian fjords, where Hulda and Joël face the emotional weather of a lottery ticket that may change everything. It’s more romantic suspense and local color than science fiction, with a pleasantly old-fashioned, unhurried feel.
- Verne in a mischievous mood: the same gun club from the moon adventure buys the North Pole and plans to tilt the Earth's axis with one colossal cannon shot, and nobody stops to ask if they should. Short, dry, and funnier than his reputation suggests, though heavy on arithmetic.
- Le professeur Aronnax, son imperturbable domestique Conseil et le harponneur Ned Land se retrouvent prisonniers à bord du Nautilus, le sous-marin du ténébreux capitaine Nemo. Tu trouves de longues listes de poissons et des forêts sous-marines, en plus des calmars géants et de l'Atlantide engloutie, alors c'est pour les lecteurs patients et curieux.
- Le professeur Lidenbrock déchiffre un message runique codé et entraîne son neveu Axel, peu rassuré, ainsi que l'inébranlable guide islandais Hans, au fond d'un volcan éteint vers le centre de la Terre. Axel raconte dans un état de panique presque permanent, ce qui rend le livre plus drôle que tu ne t'y attends.