Covering a polo match for the Observer, Emmas job is to take note of the real players off the fieldNewports well-bred elite. But the fashionable façade is breached when a woman in gaudy clothing creates a scene demanding to speak to the wife of Senator George Wetmoreuntil she is escorted off the grounds by the police. The next morning, police detective Jesse Whyte asks Emma to meet him at the Wetmores Bellevue Avenue home, Chateau sur Mer, where...

Taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by Captain Nemo, the narrator and his companions find themselves captives on a spectacular tour of the world's oceans, and witnesses to Nemo's increasingly obsessive hatred of the surface world. Professor Pierre Aronnax was rescued from drowning by Captain Nemo, who insists that in order to protect the secret of his submarine, Aronnax must stay on board the Nautilus for the rest of his life. They explore the oceans,...

"El profesor Pierre Aronnax se hace a la mar en busca de una criatura desconocida que aterroriza a todos los marineros. Un d̕a, el terrible monstruo marino golpea su embarcaci̤n y lo arroja a la profundidad de las aguas. Pero all̕ le espera una gran sorpresa: la bestia feroz es en realidad un submarino, el mayor y m̀s maravilloso que se haya visto nunca. Se llama Nautilus y lo comanda el Capit̀n Nemo. ¿l salva al profesor y sus compąeros y...

A wordless picture book in which a hungry cat pursues a fish from its fishbowl, around the neighborhood, and even among the stars and moon.

"Como en casi todas sus obras, en 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino, Julio Verne recurre a la fantasía dramática de la narración para narrarnos los secretos y maravillas del mundo subacuático, en boca del capitán Nemo, al parecer un príncipe indio que, desposeído por los ingleses, navega por los mares del mundo hundiendo barcos ingleses, esta vez en compañía de sus "invitados", el naturalista francés Aronnax, su fiel criado Consejo y el arponero...

First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of...

1941. An idealistic, naive German officer in Nazi occupied France is assigned to the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece. Their response to his presence - their only form of resistance - is complete silence.

A collection of short stories, within whose pages we "find a youthful artist possessed by both his painting and his muse and seductive travelers from the sea enrapturing distant lovers. The statue of a mermaid comes suddenly to life, and two friends are transfixed by a haunted estate"--Amazon.com.