Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.6 • 146 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
Many credit Jules Verne with inventing the genre of science fiction. In this novel, the author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days whisks us back in time and deep into the earth’s core. We follow eccentric scientist Otto Lidenbrock and his team on a dangerous exploration to an Icelandic volcano that he believes is actually a tunnel to the center of the earth. The deeper the group travels, the more treacherous the landscape becomes, littered with the bones of ancient animals and besieged by electrical storms hurling fireballs from above. But the biggest surprise of all may be waiting for them when they finally emerge…
Published in 1864, Journey to the Center of the Earth is riddled with scientific inaccuracies, all of which were based on the accepted theories of Verne’s day. That context only adds to the enjoyment of the story—and doesn’t detract from the amazing fact that Verne accurately predicted a staggering number of future inventions.
Customer Reviews
Great tale ….
The story is engaging and exciting even if in a schoolboy’ish kind of way. The delivery I found irritating especially that of the Professor’s voice which was, to my ear, more akin to a Fagin character than that of a well heeled and learned gent. A tad over-egged. I skipped on a quite bit until the travel adventure proper started and thereon it was good enough. It felt like the narrater by then settled into the job and calmed the delivery. So I do recommend but skip on without guilt I say.
Great story, unsure about narrator.
The narrator doing voices is something you are either going to love, hate, or like me, tolerate. Often overloud and over acted. I love Jules Verne and other writers of the era, but I found that the more I listened, the more I longed for the story to be over. Never before has Axel be portrayed as so colossal a whiner. There would have been little feeling should dear Hans, the silent Icelander, shrugging at the moronic antics, have abandoned both Axel and the Professor to resort to cannibalism.
Poor casting
Really difficult to listen to the story due to the narrator. Had wanted to listen to this classic for a while and thought this was going to be as good as the Apple version of The Lost World. Sadly not.