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Rated: 14 times. Average rating 4.57
Description
A Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a German professor Professor Von Hardwigg who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel and their guide Hans encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy. One of Verne's main ideas with his stories was also to educate the readers, and by placing the different extinct creatures the characters meet in their correct geological era, he is able to show how the world looked a long time ago, stretching from the ice age to the dinosaurs. Henri Ellenberger writes that the book "could be interpreted in all its details as a journey through the unconscious with the discovery of deeper and deeper archetypes, until the encounter of a fireball (symbol of the spirit) sets about the enantiodromia, that is the reversal of regression and the return to the common world."
Books by Jules Verne:
- The Mysterious Island (2002)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1994)
- The Castle in Transylvania (2010)
- The Green Ray (2003)
- Jules Verne's Moon Book - From Earth to the Moon & Round the Moon - Two Complete Books (2008)
- Around the World in 80 Days (2011)
- All Around the Moon (2011)
- The Master of the World (2012)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (2012)
- In Search Of The Castaways Or The Children Of Captain Grant (2004)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2011)
