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Originally Posted by svenlind
Thank you for two (so far) very interesting and inspiring posts  .
I too have become tempted to reread some of his stories again and will also start with 5 Weeks in a Balloon.
Some time ago I bought all his books to a very reasonable price at Delphi Classic. His works are also available in French.
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You're welcome! It's a long journey ahead of me, and it will take time, as I intend to read other books also, but as I read each of these novels I will post a review here, and maybe it will be useful for someone deciding which Verne novel to read.
Many of Verne's most famous works are from the first half part of his career, when he was particularly optimistic and full of energy, but there are also worthy books later on. Reading as a teen, I remember loving Two Year's Vacation, for example, while not being fond of The Green Ray, even though The Green Ray was written earlier.
There are no English translations for some of Verne's less well-known novels, so that's why the omnibus you bought has some of them in French, when a public domain English translation can not be found. I believe most of the English versions in that Delphi Classics collection you can also find in Project Gutenberg or here, but sometimes they use translations which are public domain but are not available elaewhere. I don't know if that's the case for this Verne collection, but it could be.