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
"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
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."--BOOK JACKET.
The Begum's millions
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[2005]
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Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT
"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...
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"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 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."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-252). - Description based on print version record
The Begum's millions / Jules VerneMr. 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.
