The story of Captain Nemo and his incredible underwater machine, the Nautilus. A submarine of considerable modern content (mysterious secret power plants, able to sustain underwater travel for extraordinarily long periods of time, complete living quarters, etc.), the Nautilus is Nemo's chief weapon in the war against Slave's plying the African nations for their trade.
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A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens.
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine.
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At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
When David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry pierced the Earth's crust in their Iron Mole, never did they expect to find a fantastic inner world of eternal daylight! A world where prehistoric monsters still live and battle with cave men and women against and even more inhuman master!
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At the Earths Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
When David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry pierced the Earths crust in their Iron Mole, never did they expect to find a fantastic inner world of eternal daylight! A world where prehistoric monsters still live and battle with cave men and women against and even more inhuman master!
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Far From The Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy.
In 19th c. Wessex, women are not supposed to be as independent as Bathsheba Everdene. Her willful behavior has unexpected results in the lives of three men who love her.
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens.
The classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of these events.
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Hounds of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville stirs up a dangerous business. For the "luminous, ghastly, and spectral" hound of the family legend has been seen roaming the moors at night, and it appears that the new baronet has inherited, along with the ancient house and vast wealth of his family, a dreadful destiny. . .
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King Solomon's Mines by H. Ryder Haggard
Allan Quatermain is a fortune hunter who is convinced by Jesse Huston to help her find her father, who's been lost somewhere in the African jungle during his last exploration..and the search for the fabulous lost treasure of King Solomon's Mines!
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King Solomons Mines by H. Ryder Haggard
Allan Quatermain is a fortune hunter who is convinced by Jesse Huston to help her find her father, whos been lost somewhere in the African jungle during his last exploration..and the search for the fabulous lost treasure of King Solomons Mines!
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A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne (1864).
Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.
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