A VOYAGE TO THE WORLD

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A VOYAGE TO THE WORLD
IN THE
CENTRE OF THE EARTH

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Based on a painting by Joseph Gandy (1771-1843)

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in Pater-noster Row, London, 1755

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In this early first-person science fiction novel the narrator, while exploring Mount Vesuvius, falls into a cavity that leads to the hollow interior of the Earth. Here he finds an advanced patriarchal civilisation ruled by an elected monarch.

During his sojourn in the world at the centre of the Earth the narrator sees and experiences many wonders and, from a repeatedly-reincarnated spirit, learns many details about life on other planets.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Chapter I.
• Chapter II.
• Chapter III.
• Chapter IV.
• Chapter V.
• Chapter VI.
• Chapter VII.
• Chapter VIII.
• Chapter IX.
• Chapter X.
• Chapter XI.
• Chapter XII.
• Chapter XIII.
• Chapter XIV.
• Chapter XV.
• Chapter XVI.
• Chapter XVII.

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CHAP. I.

By what Means I arrive at the Central World. I am almost Squeez'd to Death by the prodigious attractive Quality of that Globe.

IT is not my Intention, as is common amongst Writers of Travels, to entertain my Readers with an Account of my Birth, Parentage and Education, I have too often myself, in reading the Works of others, been surfeited with such Impertinencies. For what is it to the Reader, whether the Author was born in the North or South of England, whether his Father was a fat Man or a lean one, a Cobler or a Person of an independent fortune? Or whether the Author himself was born on a Sunday or a Monday? when at the same Time, it does not much signify whether he had ever been born at all. However, it will be necessary to say thus much of myself; that I was born a younger Brother, and met with the same Fate that those Gentry generally do, viz. to starve for Want; whilst he that had the good Luck to come into the World first, is riding in his Coach and fix.