The Vanished Diamond

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726506084
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanished Diamond written by Jules Verne and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Verne’s "The Vanished Diamond" from 1884 takes us to the South African diamond fields. Victor Cyprien is a mining engineer who falls in love with Alice, the daughter of the rich landowner Watkins. He however is not willing to give his daughter to a poor man. Cyprien decides to earn a fortune by digging in a mining claim. Things do not go as planned. But he does not give up. If you cannot dig up a diamond, you create it artificially. Will this be enough to win the hand of Alice? Can a diamond change one’s future? Is fortune more important than one’s happiness? Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who mostly wrote adventure fiction inspired by the scientific advances of the 19th century. With the help of editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel he wrote a series of books called "Extraordinary Travels", which includes "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870), and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873). Widely popular with both children and adults, Verne is one of the most translated authors of all times, and still inspires people the world over.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.GF/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanished Diamond written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535587525
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanished Diamond: the Star of the South written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist is a French mining engineer, Victor Cyprien (in the original French version: Cyprien Méré). He moves to the Griqualand district to study the formation of diamonds. While he is there he falls in love with wealthy landowner Mr. John Watkins' daughter, Alice. He asks him for her hand in marriage but is denied on his lack of money and stature in the community. He decides that he could amass a fortune by mining with a partner, Thomas Steel. They buy a mining claim and proceed to dig. Victor hires a team of Africans to mine the claim. The claim collapses when Victor's team of hired help is digging. He manages to rescue one of them, Mataki. Achieving no great finds, Victor is disheartened for there are many more eligible suitors than he.Alice begs Cyprien to returns to his studies. So Victor decides to attempt to artificially make a diamond. His experiment seems to work as a 243 carat (48.6 g) diamond is produced. He gives it to Mr. Watkins for Alice. Mr. Watkins holds a banquet in honor of Cyprien and his accomplishment. The diamond, christened as The Star of the South by Alice, is on display during this banquet. Midway through the banquet, the diamond vanishes as well as Victor's African hired help, Mataki. Mataki appears to flee with the diamond and Mr. Watkins, enraged, offers Alice's hand to whoever brings the diamond back. Victor and three other suitors set off to hunt Mataki down. They prepare to travel across the Veld.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The vanished diamond [tr. from L'étoile du sud]. written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Soorya Shanmugam
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1646103211
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Diamond written by Soorya Shanmugam and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missing Diamond By: Soorya Shanmugam In Washington DC, the Hope Diamond is stolen from the Smithsonian. Theo, a twelve-year-old boy, finds a sparkling, blue diamond in Las Vegas. The Smithsonian Faculty contacts a US soldier, Phoenix Estes. Will Theo help Phoenix to retrieve the stolen diamond? Will the Hope Diamond be restored to its rightful place, or will it be lost to history forever?

Author : Alfred Oliver POLLARD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Diamond written by Alfred Oliver POLLARD and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanished Diamond written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophie Mossman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922224903
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Missing $2 Million Diamond written by Sophie Mossman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jules Verne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Vanished Diamond written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jules Verne
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Download or read book The Vanished Diamond, a Tale of South Africa ... [Translated from "L'Étoile Du Sud."] Illustrated written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: