Audiobooks by Jules Verne

[German] - Die großen Seeabenteuer: Überwinterung im Eis - Die Meuterer von der »Bounty« - Der Leuchtturm am Ende der Welt

"Die großen Seeabenteuer Drei Erzählungen von Jules Verne, gelesen von Ingolf Kloss. Überwinterung im Eis In der Hafenstadt Dünkirchen wird der Pfarrer davon abgehalten die Messe zu lesen. Der alte Seefahrer Johann Cornbutte erinnert ihn daran eine Abmachung einzuhalten. Cornbuttes Sohn Ludwig ist Kapitän auf der Brigg 'Jeune-Hardie'. Wenn dieses aus dem Nordmeer zurückkommt, soll die Trauung zwischen seinem Sohn und seiner Nichte Marie stattfinden. Während der Pfarrer die Messe durch seinen Vikar halten lässt, eilt Johann Cornbutte mit seiner in Brautkleidern erschienenen Nichte Marie zum Hafen. Das einfahrende Schiff zeigt jedoch die Trauerflagge. Ludwig Cornbutte ist nicht mehr an Bord. Von dem Ersten Steuermann André Vasling erfahren die entsetzten Anwesenden, was geschehen ist. In der Nähe des Mahlstromes bemerkte die Besatzung der 'Jeune-Hardie' Notsignale. Der Kapitän Ludwig Cornbutte und zwei seiner Matrosen ließen sich mit der Schaluppe aussetzen, um einem norwegischen Schiff zu Hilfe zu eilen. Die drei verschwanden bei Nebel im Sturm und gelten als verschollen. Sie werden später für tot erklärt. Johann Cornbutte will sich jedoch nicht damit abfinden, er startet eine Expeditionsreise ins Nordmeer, um die Vermissten zu suchen. Ein spannendes Abenteuer beginnt ... Die Meuterer von der »Bounty« 'Die ganze Nacht segelten wir bei schwachem Wind nordwärts. Soweit war nun unsere Reise mit ununterbrochen gutem Glück vor sich gegangen. Jetzt aber sollten wir etwas gänzlich anderes erfahren. Es hatte sich eine Verschwörung angesponnen, so geheim verabredet, dass auch nicht das geringste Anzeichen einen Verdacht in uns erregen konnte.' So Kapitän William Bligh in seinen Erinnerungen an die Meuterei auf dem englischen Schiff am Morgen des 28. April 1789 im Südpazifik. 'Kurz vor Sonnenaufgang, als ich noch schlief, kamen Fletcher Christian und drei seiner Kumpane in meine Kajüte, ergriffen mich, banden mir die Hände auf den Rücken und drohten, mich augenblicklich zu töten, wenn ich nur den geringsten Lärm machen würde.' Mit 18 ihm ergebenen Männern wurde Bligh in das Beiboot verfrachtet, mit etwas Proviant versorgt und in den scheinbar sicheren Tod geschickt. Doch in einer nautischen Meisterleistung navigierte Bligh in knapp zwei Monaten das überfüllte Boot 6000 Kilometer bis nach Timor, dem heutigen Indonesien ... Der Leuchtturm am Ende der Welt In der Nähe des Kap Hoorn am südlichen Ende von Südamerika wird auf der argentinischen Insel Isla de los Estados (Staateninsel) ein Leuchtturm neu in Betrieb genommen. Dieser wird von einer dreiköpfigen Besatzung betrieben, die im Vierteljahresrhythmus ausgewechselt wird. Die Insel ist darüber hinaus – was die Leuchtturmmannschaft nicht weiß – auch ein Unterschlupf von dort gestrandeten Seeräubern. Ihnen ist die Wachmannschaft des Leuchtturmes ein Dorn im Auge. Die Seeräuber haben einen Großteil ihrer Beute in der Nähe des Turmes versteckt. Der Anführer der Bande ist der berüchtigte Kongre. Kongre und seine Gesellen warten darauf, mit der Beute die Insel verlassen zu können. Er plant, den Leuchtturm zu überfallen … Der Text von 'Überwinterung im Eis' basiert auf der Fassung der deutschen Buch-Erstausgabe, erschienen bei A. Hartleben, Wien-Pest-Leipzig, 1875. Die Übersetzung aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche stammte von Martha Lion. Der Text von 'Die Meuterer von der »Bounty«' basiert auf der Fassung der deutschen Erstausgabe, erschienen im A. Hartleben's Verlag, Wien, Pest, Leipzig, 1880. Der Text von 'Der Leuchtturm am Ende der Welt' wurde nach dem Tode Jules Vernes (1905) von Michel Verne stark überarbeitet. Diese Überarbeitung erschien bei A. Hartleben, Wien-Pest-Leipzig, 1906. Die Coverabbildung und die Typografie entstand unter Verwendung einer durch KI-generierten Bildvorlage von ChatGPT."

Jules Verne (Author), Ingolf Kloss (Narrator)

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An Antarctic Mystery

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Edgar Allan Poe left the mystery unsolved. Jules Verne dared to finish it. In 1838, Poe published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym—a haunting tale of Antarctic exploration that ended abruptly with Pym's boat rushing toward a massive white figure at the South Pole. What was it? What happened to Pym? Poe never answered, leaving one of literature's great enigmas. Sixty years later, Jules Verne wrote the sequel. Jeorling, a wealthy American, finds himself aboard the sealing ship Halbrane commanded by Captain Len Guy—whose brother led the expedition that rescued Pym in Poe's original tale. When they discover evidence that Pym's companion Dirk Peters might still be alive somewhere in Antarctica, Guy becomes obsessed with penetrating the extreme south to solve the mysteries Poe left unresolved. As the Halbrane pushes through ice fields toward the pole, Verne provides what Poe withheld: detailed Antarctic geography, rational explanations for surreal phenomena, and answers to questions Poe deliberately left open. But in explaining Poe's mysteries, does Verne enhance or diminish their power? Written in 1897 near the end of Verne's career, An Antarctic Mystery is both literary homage and revealing experiment—rationalist attempting to complete surrealist, scientific explanation confronting deliberate ambiguity. Verne's documentary precision serves him well in rendering Antarctic landscapes, but his need for rational closure transforms Poe's uncanny enigmas into natural curiosities. The result is fascinating hybrid: tribute that can't help betraying its original, sequel that demonstrates both the power and limits of scientific thinking when confronting the genuinely mysterious. From the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea—a journey to complete Poe's greatest mystery, discovering that some questions are more powerful than their answers."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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[Romanian] - O calatorie spre centrul Pamantului: Jules Verne

"O călătorie spre centrul Pământului, de Jules Verne, este un roman clasic de aventură și science-fiction care urmărește expediția profesorului Otto Lidenbrock, a nepotului său Axel și a ghidului Hans în adâncurile Pământului. Pe parcursul călătoriei, cei trei descoperă peisaje uimitoare, creaturi preistorice și fenomene extraordinare, într-o aventură captivantă care îmbină imaginația, curajul și pasiunea pentru descoperire."

Jules Verne (Author), Valentin Marian Ciocea (Narrator)

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The Golden Meteor Hunt

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A meteor of solid gold. Unlimited wealth falling from the sky. And a race that will corrupt everyone who enters it. When astronomers discover a meteor composed entirely of gold hurtling toward Earth, the world goes mad. The celestial object is worth hundreds of billions of dollars—enough to destabilize global economies, enough to trigger wars, enough to make whoever claims it the wealthiest entity on the planet. Dr. Sydney Hudelson and Dean T. Forsyth, previously friendly colleagues whose children are engaged to be married, both claim credit for discovering the meteor. Their professional rivalry escalates into bitter personal feud: they refuse to speak, sabotage each other's observations, publish competing predictions, and transform their dispute into vendetta that poisons their families and makes them objects of public ridicule. Meanwhile, the global response spirals toward chaos. Stock markets crash as investors realize that flooding the market with unlimited gold will make existing holdings worthless. Nations assert territorial claims based on predictions of where the meteor will land, and diplomatic conflicts threaten military escalation. Entrepreneurs scheme to capture the treasure. Criminals plot elaborate thefts. And ordinary people watch in fascination and terror as unlimited wealth approaches, promising either universal prosperity or economic catastrophe. From the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea—a satirical fable about greed and sudden wealth that resolves through technical salvation rather than human transformation."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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Around The Moon

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The cannon has fired. The projectile is in motion. And now, sealed inside their metal shell with a dog, three bottles of champagne, and an alarming number of unanswered questions, Impey Barbicane, Michel Ardan, and Captain Nicholl are hurtling through space toward the Moon — or rather, as a passing meteor is about to make clear, toward something in the approximate vicinity of the Moon. Around the Moon, published in 1870 as the conclusion of the story begun in From the Earth to the Moon, is Jules Verne at his most scientifically serious and his most quietly honest. His three travelers observe the lunar surface through their portholes, calculate their trajectory, argue about philosophy, eject their dead dog through a porthole into permanent orbit, and discover — when the moment of landing arrives — that they will not be landing. The deviation from their planned course means they will circle the Moon and return to Earth, watching the surface they came to reach recede behind them. This is not a failure. It is Verne refusing to invent a solution to a problem he had not solved — the problem of how a projectile without independent propulsion could decelerate enough to land — and choosing the honest ending over the triumphant one. They orbit. They observe. They return. They splash down in the Pacific and are recovered by an American naval vessel in a sequence so close to the actual procedures of the Apollo program, conducted ninety-nine years later, that the parallel has never stopped astonishing the people who notice it. Precise, contemplative, and more interested in the texture of the journey than the glory of arrival — the rare sequel that deepens everything the first novel began."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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A Drama in Livonia

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When prejudice infects the courtroom, can justice survive? Professor Dimitri Nicolef is a respected academic and rising political figure in Russian-controlled Livonia, representing the aspirations of the ethnic Russian population against the entrenched power of the Baltic German elite. When a bank employee is found murdered at a remote inn with fifteen thousand rubles missing, Nicolef becomes the prime suspect—he was one of only two people present, he owes money to powerful German bankers, and most damningly, he refuses to explain his mysterious journey. Written by Jules Verne in 1893 but withheld from publication until 1904, A Drama in Livonia is a gripping detective novel and courtroom thriller that explores how ethnic prejudice corrupts justice. As the investigation unfolds, every ambiguous piece of evidence is interpreted through the lens of German-Russian antagonism, transforming a murder case into an ethnic confrontation that threatens to destroy an innocent man and his family. Verne departs radically from his signature adventure novels to deliver a psychologically acute legal thriller that anticipates modern understanding of systemic bias and wrongful conviction. With theatrical precision and mounting suspense, he shows how even procedurally fair systems can produce profoundly unjust outcomes when prejudice shapes perception. Published just one year before Verne's death, during the height of the Dreyfus Affair in France, this lesser-known masterwork reveals a writer deeply engaged with European politics, ethnic conflict, and the fragility of justice. A compelling mystery with enduring relevance—sophisticated, suspenseful, and disturbingly contemporary."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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Burning Islands: The Archipelago on Fire

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Aegean, 1827. Greece burns for independence—and one French officer is caught between duty, justice, and impossible love. Lieutenant Henry d'Albaret commands a French naval vessel patrolling the Greek archipelago during the final years of the Greek War of Independence. His mission: suppress piracy in waters where the line between patriot and criminal has dissolved into chaos. The Ottoman Empire is collapsing. European powers maneuver for advantage. And across the islands, Greeks fight desperately for freedom after four centuries of Turkish rule. When d'Albaret encounters Hadjine Elizundo, a mysterious Greek woman aboard a captured vessel, he finds himself drawn into conflicts far more dangerous than naval warfare. Hadjine seeks vengeance against Nicholas Starkos, a Greek renegade whose betrayals have brought devastation to her family and her people. As their paths intertwine, d'Albaret must navigate between his orders from the French admiralty, his growing feelings for Hadjine, and his sympathy for the Greek cause. From the burning fortresses of island strongholds to desperate naval battles in the Aegean's treacherous waters, from political intrigue in European capitals to the intimate dramas of divided loyalties, the story sweeps across a region where ancient history collides with revolutionary fervor. The novel portrays the Greek struggle for independence with sympathy while acknowledging the war's brutality and moral ambiguities. Verne's meticulous research brings the Aegean world to vivid life: the islands' stark beauty, the naval tactics of the era, the cultural crosscurrents where Greek, Turkish, and European civilizations met and clashed. From the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea—a stirring tale of war, love, and the fight for freedom in the burning islands of Greece."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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The Gold Volcano

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the frozen North, gold fever burns hotter than any fire—and destroys everything it touches When French-Canadian cousins Ben Raddle and Summy Skim inherit a mining claim in the Klondike, they journey north during the height of the 1890s gold rush, expecting adventure and perhaps modest fortune. What they find instead is a hell of frozen rivers, makeshift cities, desperate men, and the legend of the Gold Volcano—a mountain said to contain such wealth that it will one day erupt, showering gold across the landscape. Written by Jules Verne in 1899 and published posthumously in 1906 after substantial revision by his son Michel Verne, The Gold Volcano stands among Verne's darkest works—a relentless examination of greed's corrupting power and nature's terrible indifference to human ambition. Set during the actual Klondike Gold Rush, the novel portrays with documentary precision the brutal reality behind the dream: prospectors dying of exposure and disease, fortunes won and lost in moments, and civilization's thin veneer dissolving in the face of wealth's allure. This new translation draws on both Jules Verne's stark original manuscript and Michel Verne's revised version, offering readers access to a work that challenges everything we expect from the author of Around the World in Eighty Days. Here is Verne at his most pessimistic and psychologically acute—showing us what we become when gold fever takes hold, and what remains when the fever breaks. A masterpiece of late Verne—uncompromising, prophetic, and unforgettable."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jules Verne published The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et Aventures du capitaine Hatteras) in 1866, and it's one of his darkest books. This isn't a cheerful adventure story—it's about what happens when ambition curdles into obsession. Captain John Hatteras has one goal: reach the North Pole, no matter what it costs. He takes his ship, the Forward, and his crew into the Arctic, where the ice and cold are just the beginning of their problems. As conditions get worse, the real challenge isn't the environment—it's Hatteras himself. His single-minded determination starts to look less like courage and more like something dangerous. The crew has to decide whether they're following a visionary or a madman. Verne doesn't pull punches here. The Arctic isn't just a setting; it's a reflection of what's happening inside Hatteras's head—vast, unforgiving, and increasingly unstable. As the ice closes in and supplies run low, the question stops being whether they'll reach the Pole and becomes whether they'll survive their captain's fixation. What makes this novel stand out, even among Verne's work, is how unflinching it is about the cost of ambition. There's real psychological tension here, watching a man's dream eat away at him and everyone around him. This edition updates the language for today's readers while keeping all of Verne's intensity. If you want an Arctic adventure that's more The Terror than feel-good exploration, this is it."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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The Kip Brothers

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Two brothers. One murder. A court that has already made up its mind. Karl and Pieter Kip are Dutch sailors, castaways in the South Pacific, when they are rescued by the brig James Cook and prove their worth by helping to suppress a mutiny during a storm at sea. They are honest, brave, and entirely without guile. They are also, when the ship's captain is found dead, the most convenient suspects available. The real killers are still on board. The court in Hobart Town is not interested. And the machinery of colonial justice, once set in motion, does not easily reverse itself. Published in 1902 as the fiftieth entry in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, The Kip Brothers is one of the most surprising novels of his career — part South Pacific adventure, part courtroom drama, part meditation on the Dreyfus Affair that had convulsed France throughout the 1890s. Inspired by the real case of the Rorique brothers, wrongfully convicted by a French colonial court, and dedicated to the memory of Verne's own brother Paul, it is a novel about what brotherly loyalty looks like under the most extreme pressure, and about whether the truth can survive in a system that does not want to find it. Neglected for over a century and unavailable in English until 2007, The Kip Brothers reveals a Jules Verne that most readers have never encountered: darker, angrier, and more politically engaged than the optimistic adventurer of legend. By Jules Verne. Author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days."

Jules Verne (Author), AI Voice Charles Owen (Narrator)

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Journey to the Moon

"'How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?' Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon tell the daring story of the Journey to the Moon aboard an American projectile blown into the skies by gunpowder. A powerfully innovative tale, it introduces such paradigm revolutions as escape velocity, weightlessness, "slingshot trajectories," and ocean splashdowns. Through its inimitable blend of science, humour, and verbal brilliance, it has fired generations of writers and astronauts into the space age. This new edition, translated, annotated, and presented by David Coward and William Butcher, is the only one to appear as the author wished. It contains a wealth of discoveries, including Verne's sources and ideological and stylistic disagreements with his publisher."

Jules Verne (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator)

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

"A premier adventure novel and one of the most loved science fiction classics of all time. It’s 1866 when a group of ships from different countries spot a massive sea monster. Back home, the U.S. government puts together a crew to find and kill the beast. Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist, is one of the team, as is Canadian whaler Ned Land; they set out from New York and travel for months before they find—and run smack into—the monster. With their ship terribly damaged and the crewmen tossed overboard, Aronnax, Land, and Aronnax’s servant, Conseil, discover the truth about the creature. Saved but held hostage, the characters come to know the power of the seas better than they ever thought possible. Until their precarious situation reaches its tipping point…"

Jules Verne (Author), Samuel James (Narrator)

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