Journey to the Center of the Eareh(Signet Classics)地心游记

As you can see, Signet Classics offer a wealth of pleasures. There's the pleasure of losing oneself in another world, from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Wuthering Heights . The pleasure of making the acquaintance of unforgettable characters like Huck Finn and Madame Bovary. The pleasure of learning, as with such seminal texts as The Origin of Species or The Philosophy of Aristotle . And the sheer pleasure of language, in marvelous poetry like Milton's Paradise Lost . 

Novel by Jules Verne, published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre. It is the second book in his popular science-fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863-1910). Otto Lidenbrock, an impetuous German professor of geology, discovers an encoded manu* in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a passageway to the center of the Earth. Otto impulsively prepares a subterranean expedition, enlisting his young nephew Axel and a stoic Icelandic guide, Hans Bjelke. After descending into an extinct volcano in Iceland, the men spend several months in a underground world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic sea creatures until they ride a volcanic eruption out of Stromboli Island, off the coast of Italy.