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The Jules Verne Library

The Jules Verne Library

By: Jules Verne
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Summary

 The Jules Verne Library invites the listener on a voyage not across oceans or continents, but through the printed page itself. Here are preserved the complete works of Jules Verne, read in full and without interruption, allowing the imagination to travel as it once did - by patience, attention, and wonder.

Within these recordings lie submarines that roam the abyss, balloons that survey the globe, and minds that dare to calculate the impossible. Each book is presented entire, as its author conceived it, so that invention, discovery, and adventure may unfold at their proper pace.

This is a library for explorers of thought: a place where science dreams aloud, and the future is reached one chapter at a time.Public domain
Episodes
  • Round the Moon Chapter 12 - Orographic Details

    Round the Moon Chapter 12 - Orographic Details
    May 7 2026
    In which our three intrepid voyagers, borne by their celestial projectile, near the northern hemisphere of the moon and commence their careful observations of its mysterious features, including the radiant mountain Copernicus and the puzzling luminous rays spreading across its plains. With minds both scholarly and curious, they ponder the nature of the lunar landscape and its remarkable formations, all whilst navigating the peculiarities of selenographical mapping beneath a silent cosmic canopy.
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    16 mins
  • Round the Moon Chapter 13 - Lunar Landscapes

    Round the Moon Chapter 13 - Lunar Landscapes
    May 7 2026
    In which the travellers, observing the moon from their projectile, discern the varied colours and curious landforms of its desolate surface, pondering the enigmatic rifts and peculiar tints that defy easy explanation. As they approach the northern regions, the stark and unyielding contrasts of the moon’s atmosphere-less landscape impress upon them a sense of eerie stillness, culminating as they cross into its profound darkness.
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    18 mins
  • Round the Moon Chapter 11 - Fancy and Reality

    Round the Moon Chapter 11 - Fancy and Reality
    May 6 2026
    In which we embark upon a detailed and poetic survey of the moon’s geography, contrasting its irregular continents and archipelagos with familiar earthly formations while reflecting upon the imaginative nomenclature bestowed upon its vast plains — the so-called "seas" — that poetically mirror human experience. Our travellers, divided between fanciful romanticism and pragmatic observation, contemplate this celestial map, pondering both its symbolic meanings and its tangible challenges to exploration.
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    8 mins
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