Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in runes, it tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own.
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author and a pioneer
of the science-fiction genre. His novels include Journey to the
Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865),
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869-1870), and Around the
World in Eighty Days (1873).
Frank Wynne has been a literary translator for more than a decade
and has translated works by, among others, Michel Houellebecq,
Ahmadou Kourouma, Petr Kral and Almudena Grandes. He won the 2008
Scott Moncrieff Prize for his translation of Frederic Beigbeder's
Love Lasts Three Years, the 2005 Independent Fiction Prize for
Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World and the 2002 IMPAC prize
for Atomised his translation of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules
elementaires.
Jane Smiley is the author of many novels, including Horse Heaven,
The Greenlanders, A Thousand Acres, and Ten Days in the Hills, as
well as a guide to the Novel, entitled Thirteen Ways of Looking at
the Novel. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and been short-listed for
the Orange Prize. She lives in California.
Peter Cogman won a Scholarship to read Modern and Medieval
Languages at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he subsequently
gained a Ph.D. for research on the work of the 1900s poet and
novelist P.-J. Toulet. He taught French at the University of
Southampton, and is the author of Narration in Nineteenth-Century
French Short Fiction- Prosper Merimee to Marcel Schwob (2002).
“The reason Verne is still read by millions today
is simply that he was one of the best storytellers
who ever lived.”—Arthur C. Clarke
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