The Begum's Millions - Couverture souple

Verne, Jules

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819574694 ISBN 13 : 9780819574695

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. François Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high-tech weapons of war. Its German creator, the fanatically pro-Aryan Herr Schultze, is Verne's first truly evil scientist. In his quest for world domination and racial supremacy, Schultze decides to showcase his deadly wares by destroying France-Ville and all its inhabitants. Both prescient and cautionary, The Begum's Millions is a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation and constitutes one of the earliest technological utopia/dystopias in Western literature. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices, and a critical introduction as well as all the illustrations from the original French edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0819574694
• ISBN 13: 9780819574695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308