A Journey to the Interior of the Earth
by Jules Verne
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth – The Professor and His Family – On the 24th of May 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Konigstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg.
Martha must have concluded that she was very much behindhand, for the dinner had only just been put into the oven.