The Begum's Millions - Brossura

Verne, Jules

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0819574694 ISBN 13: 9780819574695

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0819574694
• ISBN 13: 9780819574695
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 261
• Redattore: Evans Arthur B.