The novel's first English edition, translated by an unknown hand and published in 1871 by the London house Griffith & Farren, appeared under the title "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" and is now available at Project Gutenberg. A drastically rewritten version of the story, it adds chapter titles where Verne gives none, meanwhile changing the professor's surname to Hardwigg, Axel's name to Harry, and Gräuben's to Gretchen. In addition, many paragraphs and details are completely recomposed, and its text as a whole has been excoriated by scholars as one of the poorest extant Verne translations.