Book Title: Journey to the centre of the earth
Author: Jules Verne
Date finished: 11/04/’11
Page Numbers: 232 pages
Star Rating: 5/5
Overview: This tremendously written novel by Jules Verne is about a professor of rocks and his nephew found a piece of paper written by N. Saknussem stuck in a book. They recoded the piece that is originally written in Latin and found out that it is a piece of paper on Saknussem’s journey to the centre of the earth. Therefore, the professor and his nephew decided on a journey following the steps of Saknussem deep into the centre of the world. Their adventure began by getting there but their surprise was way more they could even dream of. Deep under the crust of the earth, a lot of prehistoric plants and animals that were extinct millions and millions of years ago back on the crust were as live as anything under the crust. This story tells of their journey and what difficulties they had faced.
Comments: This novel is, without any doubt, a total masterpiece written by the master story-teller Jules Verne. This thrilling novel was not only written with beautifully descriptive sentences and a wild imagination, but also it deeply explores into the adventurous and courageous personality of Jules Verne, and perhaps his own great ambition to travel deep down beneath the earth’s crust into the centre of the globe. Although, from the technology of today, we all know that all of this is quite impossible, however, Jules Verne made everything all possible in our imaginations!!
Good Sentences:
- Certain peaks, rising up boldly, pierced the grey clouds, and reappeared above the moving mists, like reefs emerging in the sky.
- Here and there an isolated farm, a solitary farmhouse, made of wood, mud or pieces of lava, appeared like a poor beggar by the wayside.
- I gazed on all the wonders in silence, words failed me to express my feelings.
