Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Lost Novel - Brossura

Verne, Jules

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ISBN 10: 034542039X ISBN 13: 9780345420398

Casa editrice: Random House Worlds, 1997

Riassunto

A novel originally written in 1863 presents a forecast of Paris in 1960, a world where money and technology control society and a young poet finds himself out of place in the materialistic, mechanistic society. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century.”—The New York Times

“For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity.”—Ray Bradbury

“Verne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and ‘vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.’ Years before they would be invented, Verne has imagined elevators and faxmachines. It was a vision Verne's editor flatly rejected. Contemporary readers know better.”—People

“An excellent extrapolation, founded on 19th-century technical novelties, of a future culture.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Verne published nearly seventy books, many of them now considered classics. But this little jewel catches him just reaching stride as a writer of science fiction, a genre that he, of course, helped put on the literary map.”—The Denver Post

L'autore:

Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and died in 1905. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in 80 Days, among others. Verne is the second most translated author in the world, after Agatha Christie and before Shakespeare.

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• Editore: Random House Worlds
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 034542039X
• ISBN 13: 9780345420398
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256