TAILIEUCHUNG - The Underground City - Verne, Jules

The engineer's curiosity was excited to the highest pitch. It never occurred to him to doubt whether this letter might not be a hoax. For many years he had known Simon Ford, one of the former foremen of the Aberfoyle mines, of which he, James Starr, had for twenty years, been the manager, or, as he would be termed in English coal-mines, the viewer. James Starr was a strongly-constituted man, on whom his fifty-five years weighed no more heavily than if they had been forty. He belonged to an old Edinburgh family, and was one of its most distinguished members. His labors did credit to the body of. | feedboo is The Underground City Verne Jules Published 1877 Categorie s Fiction Action Adventure Science Fiction Source http etext 1355 1 About Verne Jules Gabriel Verne February 8 1828-March 24 1905 was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth 1864 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea 1870 and Around the World in Eighty Days 1873 . Verne wrote about space air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne along with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells is often popularly referred to as the Father of Science Fiction . Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Verne 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea 1870 Around the World in Eighty Days 1872 In the Year 2889 1889 A Journey into the Center of the Earth 1877 The Mysterious Island 1874 From the Earth to the Moon 1865 An Antartic Mystery 1899 The Master of the World 1904 Off on a Comet 1911 Michael Strogoff or The Courier of the Czar 1874 Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Chapter 1 CONTRADICTORY LETTERS To Mr. F. R. Starr Engineer 30 Canongate Edinburgh. IF Mr. James Starr will come to-morrow to the Aberfoyle coal-mines Dochart pit Yarrow shaft a communication of an interesting nature will be made to him. Mr. James Starr will be awaited for the whole day at the Callander station by Harry Ford son of the old overman Simon Ford. He is requested to keep this invitation secret. Such was the letter which James Starr received by the first post on the 3rd December 18 the letter bearing the Aberfoyle postmark county of Stirling Scotland. The engineer s curiosity was excited to the highest pitch.

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