地心游记(外国文学经典)(插图本)——高品质文学，高品位生活

    《凡尔纳经典作品·地心游记(插图版)》作者凡尔纳是世界公认的伟人之一，无数人将各种荣耀加在他身上。但就算是今天，他也不能获得诺贝尔文学奖，因为他的小说并没有在文学上起到太大的作用，他也不能获得诺贝尔的那些科学奖，因为他的设计都太过超前，但是，他的作品却培养了一个又一个诺贝尔奖得主。这样的功绩，恐怕很难有人超越。
    《外国文学经典》系列汇集英文经典名著，版本精挑细选，装帧用心打造。作为*权威的英文原版图书，让广大英语及文学爱好者充分领略原汁原味的英语语言是该丛书经久不衰的魅力所在。

    《地心游记》是凡尔纳早期著名的科幻小说之一。小说讲述的是德国一位具有献身精神的科学家受到前人一封密码信的启发，偕同侄子和向导进行了一次穿越地心的探险旅行。小就文笔流畅，情节波澜起伏，妙趣横生，充满了幻想与传奇色彩，把读者带进了一具超越时空的幻想世界。小说发表后曾风靡世界。

作者：（法国）凡尔纳
凡尔纳(1828～1905)是法国小说家。从小向往航海，曾离家当见习水手。十九岁在巴黎学习法律，毕业后不愿当法官，为剧院创作剧本，后以创作科幻小说为主。自《气球上的五星期》获得成功之后，他每年都要发表一两部新作，作品共达六十六部之多，总称为《在已知和未知的世界中奇异地漫游》。其中著名的三部曲《格兰特船长的儿女》、《海底两万里》和《神秘岛》是其代表作，《八十天环游地球》是凡尔纳最受欢迎的作品之一。其他重要作晶还有《地心游记》、《从地球到月球》、《环游月球》、《十五岁的船长》、《蓓根的五亿法郎》、《机器岛》等。他在科学知识的基础上大胆地设想和预言未来，所作的许多科学幻想，在今天都得以实现。他也因此被称为“世界科幻小说之父”。

I answered not a word, and for a very good reason. My eyes had fallen upon a charming picture, suspended against the wall, the portrait of Grauben. My uncle's ward was at that time at Altona, staying with a relation, and in her absence I was very downhearted; for I may confess it to you now, the pretty Virlandaise and the professor's nephew loved eachother With a patience and a calmness entirely German. We had become engaged unknown to my uncle, who was too much taken up with geology to be able to enter into such feelings as ours. Grauben was a lovely blue-eye dblonde, rather given to gravity and seriousness; but that did not preventher from loving me very sincerely. As for me, I adored her, if there is sucha word in the German language. Thus it happened that the picture of mypretty Virlandaise threw me in a moment out of the world of realities intothat of memory and fancy.
There looked down upon me the faithful companion of my laboursand my recreations. Every day she helped me to arrange my uncle's pre-cious specimens; she and I labelled them together. Mademoiselle Grubenwas an accomplished mineralogist; she could have taught a few things toa savant. She was fond of investigating abstruse scientific questions. Whatpleasant hours we have spent in study; and how often I envied the verystones which she handled with her charming fingers.
Then, when our leisure hours came, we used to go out together andturn into the shady avenues by the Alster, and went happily side by side upto the old windmill, which forms such an improvement to the landscapeat the head of the lake. On the road we chatted hand in hand; I told heramusing tales at which she laughed heartily. Then we readied the banksof the Elbe, and after having bid good-bye to the swan, sailing gracefullyamidst the white water lilies, we returned to the quay by the steamer.
That is just where I was in my dream, when my uncle with a vehe-ment thump on the table dragged me back to the realities of life.