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  title info:
    title: Voyage to the center of the Earth
  title info:
    title: Voyage au centre de la terre. English
  name:
    name part: Collin de Plancy, J.-A.-S. (Jacques-Albin-Simon)
    name part: 1794-1881
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Stableford, Brian M.
    role:
      role term: translator,
    role:
      role term: writer of added commentary.
  name:
    name part: Hoffman, Mike
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Science fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 244 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Forty-three years before Jules Verne, and ninety-three years before Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jacques Collin de Plancy, remembered today for his Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, penned Voyage to the Center of the Earth (1821), which is both an adventure story and a utopian fantasy in the Voltairean tradition. An expedition is mounted to discover the hypothetical opening at the Earth's pole, the existence of which was popularized by Tyssot de Patot's Pierre de Mésange (1720), Ludwig Holberg's Nils Klim (1741) and Casanova's Icosameron (1788). There, they discover an alien world located inside the Earth populated by humans who only differ from us by size. Although there are satirical elements, this world within is treated as another planet, with its own geography and history, a mildly exotic fauna and flora, and nations with different politics and religions. Voyage to the Center of the Earth differs from its predecessors not merely because of its careful depiction of a society that has preserved happiness by rejecting progress, but because its heroes find it is too tedious to remain there.
  note: by Jacques Collin de Plancy ; translated, annotated and introduced by Brian Stableford.
  note: Originally published in French in 1821 as: Voyage au centre de la terre.
  note: Cover art: Mike Hoffman.
  subject:
    topic: Voyages, Imaginary
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Earth (Planet)
    topic: Core
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PQ2210.C64 V6913 2016
  identifier: 9781612274874
  identifier: 1612274870
  record info:
    record content source: TOH
    record creation date: 160706
    record change date: 20180104142146.0
    record identifier: in00003889285
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng