The Begum's millions
- Earliest known edition
- 2005
- Selected edition
- unknown
- Pages in this edition
- 261
- English editions
- 2 ↗
2005 · Wesleyan University Press · eng
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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."--Jacket.
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| Edition | Publication | Format | Pages | Source |
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| The Begum's millionsSelectedby Jules Verne ; translated by Stanford L. Luce ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction and note… | 2005 | unknown | 261 | Open Library ↗ |
| The Begum's millionsJules Verne ; translated by Stanford L. Luce ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction & notes by … | 2005 | unknown | 261 | Open Library ↗ |
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