Jules Verne eBooks
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Around the world in eighty days. E-book. Formato EPUB Jules Verne - Maria, 2017 -
“Around the world tour in eighty days” is an adventurous novel by French author Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In this story, London’s Phileas Fogg and his French maid Passepartout try to circumnavigate the world in 80 days to win £ 20,000 wager with the Reform Club comrades. Using whatever means necessary, he travels with his faithful servant Passepartout. Picking up a misinformed detective along the way, they travel to India (where he rescues an Indian girl from the funeral pyre of her husband), China, America and probably other places too. Does he win the bet? That would be telling.
Abandoned. E-book. Formato EPUB Jules Verne - Maria, 2019 -
Extract from the beginning of the book: “It was now exactly seven months since the balloon voyagers had been thrown on Lincoln Island. During that time, notwithstanding the researches they had made, no human being had been discovered. No smoke even had betrayed the presence of man on the surface of the island. No vestiges of his handiwork showed that either at an early or at a late period had man lived there. Not only did it now appear to be uninhabited by any but themselves, but the colonists were compelled to believe that it never had been inhabited. And now, all this scaffolding of reasonings fell before a simple ball of metal, found in the body of an inoffensive rodent! In fact, this bullet must have issued from a firearm, and who but a human being could have used such a weapon?”