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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

First published 1876
Publisher George Routledge & Sons
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages 254

{{Tr|an unknown translator}}. This translation, first published in 1876 begins: It was on Sunday, the 24th of May, 1863, that my uncle, Professor Lidenbrock, came rushing suddenly back to his little house in the old part of Hamburg, No. 19, Koenigstrasse. Our good Martha could not but think she was very much behindhand with the dinner, for the pot was scarcely beginning to simmer...

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