How you explore A Journey to the Centre of the Earth on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 12 characters, 23 places, 10 objects and 8 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 24 passages of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Jules Verne wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Jules Verne instead.
The plot of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- A Scrap of Parchment
- The Mad Enterprise Accepted
- The Last Sight of the Sky
- Lost in the Dark
- A Sea Beneath the World
- The Cemetery of an Extinct World
- The Earth Decides
- Returned to the Surface
The author's pen in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The passages themselves, Jules Verne's own words, as Literah maps it.
- The Parchment Falls from the Bookch. 1
- Harry Deciphers the Secretch. 3
- Saknussemm's Message Sets the Missionch. 3
- Gretchen Endorses the Journeych. 4
- The Shadow of Scartaris Marks the Pitch. 13
- The Last Sight of the Skych. 14
- The Eastern Gallery Endsch. 17
- Hardwigg Refuses Retreatch. 18
- Hans Returns with News of Waterch. 20
- Harry Knows He Is Lostch. 24
- Voices Through the Rockch. 25
- The Central Seach. 27
- The Raft Voyage Beginsch. 28
- The Saurians Fightch. 30
- The Electric Storm Takes Controlch. 32
- Hans Saves Harry from the Wreckch. 33
- The Cemetery of an Extinct Worldch. 35
- The Antediluvian Shepherdch. 36
- Saknussemm's Initials Transform Harrych. 38
- The Explosion Opens the Abyssch. 39
The characters of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Harrymajor
- Professor Von Hardwiggmajor
- Hans Bjelkesupporting
- Gretchensupporting
- Arne Saknussemmsupporting
- M. Fridrikssonminor
- Marthaminor
- Captain Bjarneminor
- Baron Trampeminor
- M. Finsenminor
- M. Picturssonmentioned
- Mr. Thompsonminor
The locations in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- The House in the Konigstrassehouse
- Professor Hardwigg's Studystudy
- Hamburgcity
- Copenhagencity
- Vor-Frelser's-Kirkchurch
- The Valkyrieship
- Reykjavikcity
- M. Fridriksson's Househouse
- The Icelandic Road to Sneffelsroute
- Stapivillage
- Mount Sneffelsvolcano
- The Crater of Sneffelscrater
- The Eastern Gallery and Coal Stratasubterranean gallery
- The Western Gallery and Hansbachsubterranean gallery
The core concepts in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Direct observation can overturn inherited certainty
- Curiosity repeatedly competes with self-preservation
- Practical competence makes intellectual ambition survivable
- A disputed text becomes credible through material evidence
- Human will can investigate nature but cannot command it
- Geological time makes the distant past physically present
- Discovery gains meaning against the possibility of never returning home
The objects of note in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The Heims-Kringla
- Saknussemm's Parchment
- The Map of Iceland
- The Compass
- The Manometer
- The Expedition Rope
- Hans's Iron Pole
- The Raft
- Saknussemm's Dagger
- The Blasting Powder
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