A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Written by Jules Verne

Jules Verne was a prolific French writer who greatly influenced the science fiction genre. Verne is the second most-translated author behind only Agatha Christie.

“Go down the crater of the volcano Snaefells. Follow the shadow just before the month of July. You will find your way to the center of the Earth. I did it.”

That mysterious message, found in a long-lost letter, propels a young man and his uncle on the adventure of a lifetime: to a prehistoric world below the earth where dinosaurs and other strange creatures still roam. Jules Verne’s classic sci-fi novel tells the story of German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth.

He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snaefellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.

‘Journey’ has been read by millions of inquisitive minds and has influenced some of the worlds most famous explorers such as Admiral Byrd, who announced on his 1926 expedition to the North Pole that "it is Jules Verne who is bringing me."

An Author's Republic audio production.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Feb 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781518943164

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.

Reviews for A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

[LaneDedrick · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This audiobook sounds like it was recorded at a junior college as an English 101 group project. There are at least 6 different readers each reading their own chapter/chapters with a loose pattern of taking turns. As soon as you get used to the accent and halting speech of one reader, another starts with an entirely different reading style and different difficulties with Verne’s vocabulary. Fluency of speech is the main difficulty. I made it through 25 chapters, but the above difficulties are really wearing on my ear and attention span.

[Ayelet Translations · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Bad narration. I stopped after the third narrator in chapter 9. He was the worst. Find a better version

[Modroiu Madalina · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The guy that mainly narrates is good but there are a couple of other ones that are downright horrible

[Shane Uyen · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Unironically cool story needs more dragons n sheet (dragons being dinosaurs)

[Bridgett Colglazier MacInnis · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Horrible version to listen to. The reader changes every few chapters and is drastically different in accents and reading styles.

[cory bracci · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

They change narrators every two chapters. The audio is terrible, and the speakers sound as if they can barely read. Awful.