Les Indes Noires by Jules Verne
"Les Indes Noires" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1877. When engineer James Starr receives a mysterious summons from former mine foreman Simon Ford, he returns to the supposedly exhausted coal mines of Aberfoyle, Scotland. Together they discover a vast new seam beneath the abandoned pits, establishing an underground city called Coal-City. But inexplicable phenomena threaten the operation, and deep in the tunnels they find Nell, a young girl who
has never seen daylight. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 |
|---|---|
| Title | Les Indes Noires |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Child_of_the_Cavern fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Indes_noires |
| Credits | Produced by Norman Wolcott |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Coal mines and mining -- Fiction |
| Subject | Scotland -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories |
| Subject | Civilization, Subterranean -- Fiction |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction, French |
| Subject | Imaginary places |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5081 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 5, 2014 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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