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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of New England
ISBN-13
9780819567963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88971844
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Begum's Millions
Author
Jules Verne
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Books
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
308 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jules Verne
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Arthur B. Evans
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