Jules Verne: The Extraordinary Voyages Collection (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 42)

I have to contradict the other reviewer who stated that there is no table of contents. There is none in the book itself but if there were, that would take up another 50 to 100 pages for the 47 books. In the Kindle/Fire options for the book there is an active table of contents and when you select any of the 47 books, that opens to a table of contents for THAT book. The secondary TOC is not active but it is there. This selection has quite an extensive TOC.I have been collecting Jules Verne's books as the "Father of Science Fiction" for some time (for free) and had about 26 books. It turns out that some were duplicates of each other because of the way they were packaged. This group of 47 is a different translation for some of them but, although it obviously has more than I had in the first place, it did NOT replace all I had.There are some books that I have "purchased" from Amazon that are not included. Most of these are the Public Domain (dual-color -- cream over bolder color) with many of them being Gutenberg copies. I did remove 20 books that were either directly in this selection or were duplicated in some way.At over 17 MB for the actual book file, it is one of my larger books but since I don't usually loan and it does have the excellent TOC, it is definitely a keeper. Now just to find the time to READ it all!

Jules Verne's fertile imagination created some of the very first writings in science fiction. Some of his stories went on to find success as motion pictures almost a century after they'd been written. People are still trying to imagine the future and how daily activity will be carried on. It's interesting to read these old stories and find similarities in Science Fiction writing today. Jules Verne was a man ahead of his time.

Amazing stories! I had no idea that Verne was much more than a sci-fi writer! Sci-fi was only a small part of his writing! He was an awesome adventure writer, writing with great detail and possessing knowledge of nearly every country around the world! Considering he was writing more than 100 years ago, that’s incredible!

The formatting leaves some to be desired, but the works overall are incredible, of course, because it's Jules Verne.

It's a low down dirty shame Jules Verne isn't more extensively taught in high school or in college. The man practically invented science fiction. Traveling through time, slipping underneath waves and visiting the lost city of Atlantis, flying around the world in an air balloon, all of it. Pure genius. This is an excellent collection of his most popular works and well worth the purchase.

Great to have so many unavailable Verne novels 'now available' in e-book form thru amazon...laid out so well, reader-friendly AND at such an amazing price !!

İt is a very interesting book. There are more than 30 novel of Jules Verne.

All the great stories

I love it! Always wanted to read all Verne’s book and now I have them in one package

I loved Jules Verne as a child and now I'm looking forward to reading "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" again. Jules Verne is indeed, timeless.

This is a great book for the fiction science lovers.I really recommend this one.Try it and you will not be disappointed.

Also natürlich habe noch nicht alle Bücher gelesen, doch man kann jetzt schon sagen, dass jedes seiner Werke was besonderes haben,Jule Verne gilt vielleicht als Schriftsteller der Science-Fiction Romane schrieb, doch gerade wenn man aus Sicht der heutigen Zeit seine Werke sich anschaut, versteht man das er versucht hat die Entwicklung der Zukunft in eine Momentaufnahme zu erfassen. Vielleicht hat Jules Verne nicht genau unsere Gegenwart beschrieben, doch er hat versucht sie zu sehen und hat immer recht nahe Szenarien zur unserer Zeit gefunden.Zur seiner Zeit wurde beispielsweise gerade das Morsezeichen per Telegramm erfunden und Jules Verne sagt darauf basierend sowas wie das Internet voraus.Es sagte die Mondlandung voraus und stellte sogar Berechnungen an die sogar der tatsächlichen Flugzeit der Mondlandung entsprechen!Auf einigen seiner Voraussagen, warte ich noch gespannt und ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass diese eintreffen...Seine Bücher regen einen wirklich an zum Nachdenken und gerade zu unserer schnell entwickelnden Zeit, kann man sich kaum vorstellen was sogar in 20 Jahren sein wird!

what you see is what you get, great sci fi from a real visionary of his time.