| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series |
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Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
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| Contents |
The Begum's millions / Jules Verne -- Mr. Sharp makes his entrance -- Two friends -- A news item -- Divided in two -- The city of steel -- The Albrecht mine -- The central block -- The dragon's lair -- Absent without leave -- An article from Unsere Centurie, a German journal -- Dinner at Dr. Sarrasin's -- The council -- Letter from Marcel Bruckmann to Professor Schultze, Stahlstadt -- Preparing from combat -- The San Francisco stock exchange -- Two Frenchman against a city -- Explanations at gunpoint -- The kernel of the mystery -- A family affair |
| Summary |
"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. Francois 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 |
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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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-252) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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| SUBJECT |
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 fast |
| Subject |
Science fiction, French.
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FICTION -- General.
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Science fiction, French
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Luce, Stanford, 1923-2007.
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Evans, Arthur B
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Schulman, Peter, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9780819574596 |
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0819574597 |
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9780819574695 |
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0819574694 |
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