Though Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar hews more closely to the genre of historical fiction than the science fiction for which Jules Verne is best known, the novel contains the same action-packed adventure and intrigue that made Verne...
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Though Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar hews more closely to the genre of historical fiction than the science fiction for which Jules Verne is best known, the novel contains the same action-packed adventure and intrigue that made Verne famous, and critics now regard it as one of the author's most fully realized literary efforts. A must-read for Verne fans and lovers of fast-paced historical adventures
Title; Contents; BOOK I; Chapter I - A Fete at the New Palace; Chapter II - Russians and Tartars; Chapter III - Michael Strogoff Meets the Czar; Chapter IV - From Moscow to Nijni-Novgorod; Chapter V - The Two Announcements; Chapter VI - Brother and Sister; Chapter VII - Going Down the Volga; Chapter VIII - Going Up the Kama; Chapter IX - Day and Night in a Tarantass; Chapter X - A Storm in the Ural Mountains; Chapter XI - Travelers in Distress; Chapter XII - Provocation; Chapter XIII - Duty Before Everything; Chapter XIV - Mother and Son; Chapter XV - The Marshes of the Baraba
Chapter XVI - A Final EffortChapter XVII - The Rivals; BOOK II; Chapter I - A Tartar Camp; Chapter II - Correspondents in Trouble; Chapter III - Blow for Blow; Chapter IV - The Triumphal Entry; Chapter V - "Look While You May!"; Chapter VI - A Friend on the Highway; Chapter VII - The Passage of the Yenisei; Chapter VIII - A Hare Crosses the Road; Chapter IX - In the Steppe; Chapter X - Baikal and Angara; Chapter XI - Between Two Banks; Chapter XII - Irkutsk; Chapter XIII - The Czar's Courier; Chapter XIV - The Night of the Fifth of October; Chapter XV - Conclusion;
