这部带有神秘色彩的小说，似乎宣扬了上帝的法力无边和善恶有报的思想，实则是作者本人对贪欲的鞭笞与警告。小说刻画了一帮穷凶极恶的遗产承继人的丑恶形象，惟妙惟肖地描绘出他们如何为得到遗产而盼望叔父去世，如何在病人垂危之际迫不及待地抢夺甚至偷盗财物，而且为了安心享用偷盗来的钱财，不惜以种种卑鄙的手段迫害一个纯洁无辜的孤女。和《人间喜剧》中绝大部分故事不同，这个故事的结尾是好人得福，坏人受惩并转变。虽然这种结局在现实生活中并不多见，却充分阐发了作者以宗教观念遏制人类堕落倾向的主张。作者认为利欲之心导致种种恶行和犯罪，惟有建立对神的敬畏才能改善人们的道德面貌，使社会上减少恶行，增加善举。
An Antarctic Mystery（冰岛怪兽） 立即阅读
An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.
De la terre à la lune（从地球到月球） 立即阅读
De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes est un roman d'anticipation de Jules Verne, paru en 1865. Il relate comment, après la fin de la guerre de Sécession, une association d'artilleurs et de scientifiques liés à l'industrie militaire tente d'envoyer sur la Lune un obus habité par trois hommes. De la Terre à la Lune forme la première partie d'un diptyque, qui se clôt avec Autour de la Lune, paru quatre ans plus tard. Plusieurs personnages de ces romans sont remis en scène dans Sans dessus dessous, publié vingt ans plus tard, sans grand succès, puis redécouvert en 1975.
The Adventures of a Special Correspondent（特派记者:篷巴拉克历险记） 立即阅读
Claudius Bombarnac (French: Claudius Bombarnac, 1893) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. Claudius Bombarnac, a reporter is assigned by the Twentieth Century to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan and Peking, China. Accompanying him on this journey is an interesting collection of characters, including one who is trying to beat the round the world record and another who is a stowaway. Claudius hopes one of them will become the hero of his piece, so his story won't be just a boring travelogue. He is not disappointed when a special car guarded by troops is added to the train, said to be carrying the remains of a great Mandarin.
