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Clockworks, steam power, the magic of science - submerge yourself in the realms of Steampunk with these great novels.

Jules Verne explores the underwater depths with a brave scientist and the gentlemanly, but crazed, submarine captain who kidnaps him.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always The Woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

Phileas Fogg, English gentleman, sets out to travese the globe by train, stagecoach, steamship, airship - any way he can.

19th-century "folklore collectors," Wilhem and Jacob Grimm are con artists who perform bogus exorcisms of "evil enchantments" while traveling from village to village in French-occupied Germany.

The source of these outrages is known, and if they are repeated I have Mr. Holmes's authority for saying the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant will be given to the public.

The man who brought you James Bond also brought this magical, steampunk tale of a flying car!

In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Follow the Gaslamp adventures of inventor Agatha Clay in these steampunk graphic novels.

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

It was a secret message by an ancient alchemist, found on a crumbling scrap of parchment.

A rousing tale of dauntless pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space.

Features the adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen including Dr. Jekyll, Mina Murray (from Dracula), Captain Nemo, and Allan Quartermain, set in the Victorian era.

"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.

A bitter rivalry between two magicians turns deadly as one tries to find the secret to another's most powerful trick.

A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel, and Curious Hats.

Set in Victorian London, a young inventor finds himself torn between two factions who are after the revolutionary "Steam ball," an item that holds a secret menacing power.
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Dr. Jekyll is trying to remove evil from mankind, but his experiments backfire when the powder transforms him into his uncontrollable evil side, Mr. Hyde.

The very first Sherlock Holmes story, where Holmes, the master of detection, and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are introduced.

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace.

When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities.

Cassandra didn't care a jot what sensible people thought. She liked strange, mysterious, and margical things.

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