When Paula returns from her quiet boarding school, she must learn anew to cope with a home that includes five rambunctious brothers, two eccentric aunts, bibliophile uncle, old Babbett, and energetic Mama. With Paula trying to adapt herself to new responsibilities and a new adult world, her brothers find plenty of fun and trouble-involving naval battles in flooded basements, gypsies and brushes with thin ice. Then everything is overshadowed by the Prussian takeover. Paula and her brothers must make firm choices about growing up in this story of an eventful year.

This Excellent Collection brings together Jules Verne's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jules Verne's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. Jules Verne (1828Ŕ1905) was a French writer. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction. Some of his books include Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Jules Verne has earned a place in the history of literature as one of the most important writers of adventure novels of recent history. But his novels contain more than just entertainment. Their pages contain hidden scientific data, descriptions of inventions and, above all, a love of technological innovations and the progress of humanity. From his perspective as a nineteenth-century man, Verne shocked the world will tales of gadgets and vehicles that, years later, would eventually take shape outside fiction, just as Isaac Asimov did years later. His influence has been such that it has come to serve as an inspiration to an entire cultural and aesthetic movement. This Collection included: 1. Five Weeks in a Balloon 2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras 3. A Journey into the Center of the Earth 4. From the Earth to the Moon 5. Around the Moon 6. In Search of the Castaways 7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 8. A Floating City 9. The Fur Country 10. Around the World in Eighty Days 11. The Mysterious Island 12. The Survivors of the Chancellor 13. Michael Strogoff, or the Courier of the Czar 14. Off on a Comet 15. The Underground City, or the Child of the Cavern 16. Dick Sand, a Captain at Fifteen 17. The Begum's Millions 18. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China 19. The Steam House 20. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 21. Godfrey Morgan 22. The Green Ray 23. Kéraban the Inflexible 24. The Vanished Diamond 25. The Archipelago on Fire 26. Mathias Sandorf 27. The Lottery Ticket 28. Robur the Conqueror 29. Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South 30. The Flight to France 31. Two Years' Vacation 32. Family Without a Name 33. The Purchase of the North Pole, or Topsy-Turvy 34. César Cascabel 35. Mistress Branican 36. Carpathian Castle 37. Claudius Bombarnac 38. Foundling Mick 39. Captain Antifer 40. Propeller Island 41. Facing the Flag 42. Clovis Dardentor 43. An Antarctic Mystery 44. The Will of an Eccentric 45. Master of the World