Literate Lifetime

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." -- W. Fusselman

Looking for something great (and free) to read? Enter an author's name and/or a key word from a book title to search for entries in our database of public domain works.

In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain GrantDownload Now...

by Jules Verne (Author)

Text Source:

Text URL:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2083

Language:

Type:

E-book

Description:

Not available

Table of Contents:

Not available

Amazon.com Information:

Sales Rank:

984542

ISBN:

1406923117

Page Count:

432

Detail Page:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1406923117

Download this text: In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant

Customer Review: The appearance of this book is aweful.

I was not happy about the appearance of this book. This is a marvelous novel and I read it long time ago in Chinese version. The version had a lot of very good pictures, which helped to make the novel more interesting and attractive. And it looked like a novel. The English version I received looked like a computer programming guide rather than a novel.

At the first glance, I thought I had received an MS computer book, which used to come with old computer a few years ago. The size of the book looks like that. The fonts used look like that as well. I was truly disappointed to see such a marvelous and interesting novel would have yet appeared in such a dull, uninteresting, and boring way. There was not even a picture on the cover! Quite frankly, if I had not known this book previously, I would have paid no attention to it if I saw it.

Product Description

ALL that could be discovered, however, on these pieces of paper was a few words here and there, the remainder of the lines being almost completely obliterated by the action of the water. Lord Glenarvan examined them attentively for a few minutes, turning them over on all sides, holding them up to the light, and trying to decipher the least scrap of writing, while the others looked on with anxious eyes.

Customer Review: Kindle edition

Kindle edition of "The Children of Captain Grant" works great. I am very happy that I can finally get a copy of it.

Customer Review: What a rip-off!

Don't pay $$$$ for this. This is a free file, that the publishers have printed out from one of dozens of sites on the internet.

How cheap can publishers get? Check out the amazon scans. The page numbers in the table of contents are from the old edition that's been ripped off, and don't match the current book!

Oh, and this (from the Horne/Parke edition) is horribly truncated. Four of Verne's chapters completely removed. Significant portions of many other chapters deleted. Et cetera.

Captain Grant's Children is a masterpiece. This edition is a rip-off, at any price. Shame on Amazon for even selling this kind of disreputable nonsense.

Book Categories:

Books / Subjects
Books / Refinements / Binding (binding) / Paperback
Books / Refinements / Format (feature_browse-bin) / Printed Books

Pick of the Day

England under the Tudors
by
Arthur D Innes (Author)

Read more...

Other recent picks

Lists of Interest

Modern Library 100 Best Novels: In 1998, Modern Library picked the top 100 Novels of the century. This list contains all of the bo ...

Webmaster's Favourites: These are my selections, humbly presented as books that I particularly enjoyed.

Other ways of browsing

Top sellers at Amazon

Newest Additions

Random Book

Random Author