A Journey to the Center of the Earth Great Illustrated Classics
Language: English
Pages: 188
ISBN: B005JTN4YQ
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
An Heroic Quest! Join Professor Von Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their Icelandic guide Hans in their daring quest down a volcano and toward the center of the earth. Guided by an ancient parchment filled with a mysterious Runic code, the three explorers encounter tumultous storms, wild pre-historic animals, vast underground seas and fierce cavemen. Will they complete their quest? Will they reach the center of the earth. . . ?
Bouvard et Pécuchet : Avec des fragments du second volume, dont le Dictionnaire des idées reçues
Œuvres complètes, tome 1 (La Pochothèque)
L'École des femmes : La Critique de l'école des femmes
Foreigners have their own libraries, and our first consideration is, that our humbler classes should be highly educated. Fortunately, the love of study is innate in the Icelandic people. In 1816 we founded a Literary Society and Mechanics’ Institute; many foreign scholars of eminence are honorary members; we publish books destined to educate our people, and these books have rendered valuable services to our country. Allow me to have the honor, Professor Hardwigg, to enroll you as an honorary.
Liquid provided by my uncle was Schiedam. Of water, not a drop. We had, however, an ample supply of gourds, and my uncle counted on finding water, and enough to fill them, as soon as we commenced our downward journey. My remarks as to the temperature, the quality, and even as to the possibility of none being found, remained wholly without effect. To make up the exact list of our traveling gear—for the guidance of future travelers—I will add, that we carried a medicine and surgical chest with.
Six-footed centaur. “Good beast, good beast,” he would cry. “I assure you, Henry, that I begin to think no animal is more intelligent than an Icelandic horse. Snow, tempest, impracticable roads, rocks, icebergs—nothing stops him. He is brave; he is sober; he is safe; he never makes a false step; never glides or slips from his path. I dare to say that if any river, any fjord has to be crossed—and I have no doubt there will be many—you will see him enter the water without hesitation like an.
I said, “let us start without delay.” “Yes, my boy, I am quite as eager to do so as you can be. But, in the first place, let us examine this mysterious gallery, in order to find if we shall need to prepare and mend our ladders.” My uncle now began to see to the efficiency of our Ruhmkorf’s coil, which would doubtless soon be needed; the raft, securely fastened to a rock, was left alone. Moreover, the opening into the new gallery was not twenty paces distant from the spot. Our little troop, with.
Then, Henry.” “I can’t do it!” I cried, in accents of despair. “Are you, after all, a coward sir?” said my uncle in a pitiless tone. “Go up, I say!” (pp. 32-33) The Professor will continue to expose Henry to danger time and again throughout the journey, all the while making light of his nephew’s justifiable fear or caution. The dynamic between Henry and his uncle is further complicated by the sense one has that, while on the one hand the Professor is forcing Henry into adulthood, he is also.