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Journey to the Centre of the EarthTranslation, introduction and critical edition byWilliam ButcherOUP 1992New OUP Edition 2008ISBN: 0-19-283675-7Folio Society Edition, with an Introduction by Michael Crichton, 2001
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. A classic of nineteenth-century literature, the novel’s distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse as Sartre and Tournier, Mark Twain and Conan Doyle.
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Reviews:'cracking good read . . . excellent modern translations . . . great read, thrilling' Vulpes Libris gripping, and genuinely unputdownable' 'complete joy . . . deeply moved by the language . . . powerful translation . . . brilliant' Extrapolation ‘superb . . . a true pearl of a book’ Professor Arthur Evans, Extraordinary Voyages ‘extremely useful’ Modern Language Review ‘a virtuoso exegete’ French Studies
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