A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne, 1864.
Professor Lidenbrock finds a coded note saying an explorer once reached the centre of the Earth through an Icelandic volcano. Dragging along his nervous nephew Axel and a calm guide, Hans, he climbs down into caves, an underground sea, and a world of giant creatures.
Public-domain text. First published in 1864; Jules Verne died in 1905, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.