
Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales
The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America…By H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. M. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. Beam Piper, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester Del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor, Gustavus W. PopeLength968h 48m
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Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length968 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 21, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Brontës: Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë - All 8 Books in One Edition
2Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales
3The Great Pioneers of SF
4Jules Verne
5Journey to the Center of the Earth
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6Preface
7Chapter I. The Professor And His Family
8Chapter II. A Mystery To Be Solved At Any Price
9Chapter III. The Runic Writing Exercises The Professor
10Chapter IV. The Enemy To Be Starved Into Submission
11Chapter V. Famine, Then Victory, Followed By Dismay
12Chapter VI. Exciting Discussions About An Unparalleled Enterprise
13Chapter VII. A Woman’s Courage
14Chapter VIII. Serious Preparations For Vertical Descent
15Chapter IX. Iceland! But What Next?
16Chapter X. Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants
17Chapter XI. A Guide Found To The Centre Of The Earth
18Chapter XII. A Barren Land
19Chapter XIII. Hospitality Under The Arctic Circle
20Chapter XIV. But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
21Chapter XV. Snæfell At Last
22Chapter XVI. Boldly Down The Crater
23Chapter XVII. Vertical Descent
24Chapter XVIII. The Wonders Of Terrestrial Depths
25Chapter XIX. Geological Studies In Situ
26Chapter XX. The First Signs Of Distress
27Chapter XXI. Compassion Fuses The Professor’s Heart
28Chapter XXII. Total Failure Of Water
29Chapter XXIII. Water Discovered
30Chapter XXIV. Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ The Ground So Fast?
31Chapter XXV. De Profundis
32Chapter XXVI. The Worst Peril Of All
33Chapter XXVII. Lost In The Bowels Of The Earth
34Chapter XXVIII. The Rescue In The Whispering Gallery
35Chapter XXIX. Thalatta! Thalatta!
36Chapter XXX. A New Mare Internum
37Chapter XXXI. Preparations For A Voyage Of Discovery
38Chapter XXXII. Wonders Of The Deep
39Chapter XXXIII. A Battle Of Monsters
40Chapter XXXIV. The Great Geyser
41Chapter XXXV. An Electric Storm
42Chapter XXXVI. Calm Philosophic Discussions
43Chapter XXXVII. The Liedenbrock Museum Of Geology
44Chapter XXXVIII. The Professor In His Chair Again
45Chapter XXXIX. Forest Scenery Illuminated By Eletricity
46Chapter XL. Preparations For Blasting A Passage To The Centre Of The Earth
47Chapter XLI. The Great Explosion And The Rush Down Below
48Chapter XLII. Headlong Speed Upward Through The Horrors Of Darkness
49Chapter XLIII. Shot Out Of A Volcano At Last!
50Chapter XLIV. Sunny Lands In The Blue Mediterranean