Émile Bayard Books

The story continues the ambitious lunar journey initiated in Verne's earlier work, featuring the Baltimore Gun Club's massive Columbiad space gun. Three adventurers—Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan—embark on a five-day voyage to the Moon. Their journey takes an unexpected turn when a small asteroid passes dangerously close, only to be captured by Earth's gravity, creating a second moon. This sequel blends thrilling adventure with imaginative science, reflecting Verne's visionary storytelling and engaging exploration of space travel.

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane’s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a “manned” flight, one man’s dream turns into an international space race. A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verne’s timeless masterpieces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.

L'Âme de Pierre = Pierre's soul = The Soul of Stone = Odkázaná duše Na večírku pořádaném princem Patrizzim doktor Davidoff sdílí myšlenku, že člověk může zachránit život smrtelně nemocnému milovanému člověku tím, že mu dá svou duši za cenu vlastního života. To udělá velký dojemna malíře Pierra Lauriera a Jacquese de Vignese, který je sám vážně nemocný. Téhož večera Pierre zmizí poté, co byl propuštěn svou milenkou, krásnou Clémence Villa, a zanechá za sebou sebevražedný dopis, ve kterém vyjadřuje přání vzdát se své duše, aby obnovil Jacquesovo zdraví...