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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A fiction book that teaches you things about the earth and life that you did not know before.

The original title of this book is “Voyage au centre de la terre” and is written by the famous writer Jules Verne. The book was published in 1864 in French, and was later translated into English, which is the language of the book I read. As I have not read the original version of this book, I cannot compare the languages of the two books. Something I can tell you, is that I could not notice that it was a translation, as the language used in the book was extremely good.

Jules Verne was a French author who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He is considered to be one of the world’s greatest book writers ever, after having written many famous novels. Jules has also written plays, that are unfortunately have not become as popular as his many books. The genres of his novels are many; teenager books, popular books and scientific ones. His pieces of work have been translated to a large number of languages. This book, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, has been presented as a movie in 1959.

When he wrote many of his books, they were like fiction, as the things they were about had not been done at that time. Today, more than a century later, the situation is not the same any more. Jules Verne wrote his books about imaginary things, that have now turned into reality, like trips to the moon for instance. This, to me, was very fascinating to know at the time I read my book, all though this trip, to the centre of the earth, has not been done yet. The thought of this happening sometime in the future is, according to me, a bit scary as I can not imagine doing such a trip myself.

While reading this book, I realised that Jules Verne was a really talented man, and that he had done a lot of research to be able to write about the scientific and historical matters.
The book is written in such a way, that even though I am living in the 21st century, I ask my self if this

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