JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 10 INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nang cao. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 10 INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS Dinner was ready. Professor Liedenbrock devoured his portionvoraciously for his compulsory fast on board had converted hisstomach into a vast unfathomable gulf. There was nothing remarkablein the meal itself but the hospitality of our host more Danish thanIcelandic reminded me of the heroes of old. It was evident that wewere more at home than he was himself. The conversation was carried on in the vernacular tongue which myuncle mixed with German and M. Fridrikssen with Latin for my turned upon scientific questions as befits philosophers butProfessor Liedenbrock was excessively reserved and at every sentencespoke to me with his eyes enjoining the most absolute silence uponour plans. In the first place M. Fridrikssen wanted to know what success myuncle had had at the library. Your library why there is nothing but a few tattered books uponalmost deserted shelves. Indeed replied M. Fridrikssen why we possess eight thousandvolumes many of them valuable and scarce works in the oldScandinavian language and we have all the novelties that Copenhagensends us every year. Where do you keep your eight thousand volumes For my part - Oh M. Liedenbrock they are all over the country. In this icyregion we are fond of study. There is not a farmer nor a fishermanthat cannot read and does not read. Our principle is that books instead of growing mouldy behind an iron grating should be worn outunder the eyes of many readers. Therefore these volumes are passedfrom one to another read over and over referred to again and again and it often happens that they find their way back to their shelvesonly after an absence of a year or two. And in the meantime said my uncle rather spitefully strangers -- Well what would you have Foreigners have their libraries at home and the first essential for labouring people is that they should beeducated. I repeat to you the love of reading runs
