Jules Verne

The Begum's Millions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Evans, Arthur B. / Übersetzer: Luce, Stanford L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780819574596
• Artikelnr.: 40289803

Autorenporträt

Jules Verne and Arthur B. Evans translated by Stanford L. Luce

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