New York, NY — June 22, 2026 — Long before submarines, space travel, and globe-spanning adventure became staples of modern storytelling, Jules Verne was already imagining worlds opened by science, speed, and human daring. Carlini Classics now presents a new Jules Verne series featuring Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, In Search of the Castaways, The Mysterious Island, Five Weeks in a Balloon, The English at the North Pole, All Around the Moon, Robur the Conqueror, The Giant Raft, Abandoned, The Field of Ice, The Fur Country, A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories, The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras, From the Earth to the Moo and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, returning readers to the works that helped define the adventure novel and establish Verne as one of the foundational visionaries of speculative fiction.
Born in Nantes in 1828, Verne became one of the great literary architects of scientific adventure, writing novels that combined carefully conceived technological possibility with wonder, peril, and exploration. His best-known books—among them Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–70), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872–73)—were central to his Extraordinary Voyages series and helped earn him a lasting reputation as a pioneer, and often a “father,” of science fiction.
Each of these novels captures a different dimension of Verne’s imagination. Journey to the Center of the Earth descends through an Icelandic volcano into a lost subterranean world; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea sends readers beneath the oceans aboard Captain Nemo’s Nautilus; and Around the World in Eighty Days turns modern transit itself into a breathless narrative machine as Phileas Fogg races the clock around the globe. Taken together, they show how Verne fused geography, engineering, and narrative suspense into fiction that remains exhilarating even after the future he imagined began to arrive.
The covers for this series were designed by Brandon Jones, a graphic design student at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Across the editions, Jones uses oversized condensed typography, atmospheric monochrome palettes, and image fields that evoke each book’s elemental setting: the red-lit cavern depths of Journey to the Center of the Earth, the expansive blue sea of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, and the pale, misted landscape and steamer of Around the World in Eighty Days. The result is a bold, cohesive look that feels simultaneously vintage and cinematic, emphasizing motion, scale, and discovery.
“Verne understood that adventure begins where knowledge meets imagination,” said Charles Carlini, founder of Casa Carlini. “These books still astonish because they make discovery feel dramatic, precise, and limitless all at once.”
More than classics of youthful wonder, Verne’s novels remain blueprints for modern adventure fiction, where curiosity drives the plot, and the world is always larger than it first appears. With this new Carlini Classics series, readers can return to the writer who taught generations to see exploration itself as a form of storytelling.
The Jules Verne series from Carlini Classics is available now through Casa Carlini, major booksellers, and Amazon.
About Carlini Classics
Carlini Classics publishes thoughtfully designed editions of essential literary works, bringing enduring voices into conversation with contemporary readers.
About Casa Carlini
Casa Carlini is an independent publishing house devoted to books that linger—on the shelf, in the mind, and in conversation, long after the last page is turned.
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