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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Other Authors: Schulman, Peter, 1964-, Evans, Arthur B., Luce, Stanford, 1923-2007
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verne, Jules, > 1828-1905.
Science fiction, French.
FICTION > General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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