A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Winter Amid the Ice, by Jules Verne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories Author: Jules Verne Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28657] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WINTER AMID THE ICE *** Produced by Alan Winterrowd from a text scanned and made available By Google Books A Winter Amid the Ice by Jules Verne Contents DOCTOR OX'S EXPERIMENT CHAPTER I. How it is useless to seek, even on the best maps, for the small town of Quiquendone CHAPTER II. In which the Burgomaster Van Tricasse and the Counsellor Niklausse consult about the affairs of the town CHAPTER III. In which the Commissary Passauf enters as noisily as unexpectedly CHAPTER IV. In which Doctor Ox reveals himself as a physiologist of the first rank, and as an audacious experimentalist CHAPTER V. In which the burgomaster and the counsellor pay a visit to Doctor Ox, and what follows CHAPTER VI. In which Frantz Niklausse and Suzel Van Tricasse form certain projects for the future CHAPTER VII. In which the Andantes become Allegros, and the Allegros Vivaces CHAPTER VIII. In which the ancient and solemn German waltz becomes a whirlwind CHAPTER IX.