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20,000 Leagues Under the Seas
(May 2013)
A World Tour Underwater
Jules Verne - Author
Frederick Paul Walter - Translator
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The deep-sea exploits of secretive Captain Nemo, embarking on the world’s first global vendetta.
When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but A...(Read More) |
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Around the World in 80 Days
(May 2013)
Jules Verne - Author
Frederick Paul Walter - Translator
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Literature’s classic race against the clock.
Part manhunt, part love story, part social satire, but mostly a race against the clock, Around the World in 80 Days is Jules Verne’s most rollicking novel. When Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gentleman who lives his life “with mathemetical predictability,” bets the fellow members of his club £20,000 that he can circle the earth in...(Read More) |
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The Sphinx of the Ice Realm
(June 2012)
The First Complete English Translation, with the Full Text of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
Jules Verne - Author
Edgar Allan Poe - Author
Frederick Paul Walter - Editor/translator
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The first complete English translation of Jules Verne’s epic fantasy novel.
Decades after Edgar Allan Poe’s longest and weirdest tale, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, was published—the protagonist disappearing into the misty, mystifying Antarctic seas; his fate unknown—Jules Verne took up the challenge to answer what had happened to him. In The Sphinx of the Ice Realm, ...(Read More) |
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Amazing Journeys
(January 2010)
Five Visionary Classics
Jules Verne - Author
Frederick Paul Walter - In New, Complete Translations by
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New, superbly translated omnibus of five of Jules Verne’s most renowned stories: Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Circling the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, and Around the World in 80 Days.
“One of the best storytellers who ever lived.” — Arthur C. Clarke
In one dazzling decade, French novelist Jules Verne took readers to...(Read More) |
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