Author: Jules VernePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803246757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Translation of: Le secret de Wilhelm Storitz.
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
Author: Jules VernePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803235070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Translation of: Le secret de Wilhelm Storitz.
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
Author: Jules VernePublisher: Associated Booksellers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
Author: Jules VernePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803246757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Translation of: Le secret de Wilhelm Storitz.
Jules Verne's Magellania
Author: Jules VernePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
"Magellania - which refers to the region around the Straight of Magellan - is the home of Kaw-djer, a mysterious man of Western origin whom the indigenous people consider a demigod. A man whose motto is "Neither God nor master," he has shunned Western civilization and its hypocrises in order to live peacefully on an island claimed by no one. But when a thousand immigrants become stranded on his island in a storm and ask him to be the leader of their colony, will Kaw-djer go against everything he believes in to help them live and prosper in this foreign land at the end of the world?" "Jules Verne penned Magellania in 1897, following the death of his brother and at a time when his health was beginning to fail. Originally titled Land of Fire and At the End of the World, Magellania was a work intended to reflect Verne's deeply held religious and political beliefs; it was also a representation of a man faced with his own mortality. After Verne's death in 1905, Magellania was completely rewritten by his son, Michel, at the request of his father's publisher, Hetzel. It was published in 1909 under the title Les naufrages du Jonathan, only to disappear into obscurity." "In 1977 the great Vernian scholar Piero Gondolo della Riva discovered the original manuscript in the Hetzel family archives. In 1985, the Jules Verne Society in France published a limited edition of the work. The first English translation ever shows Magellania to be a unique, forceful novel that widens the scope of Verne's literary legacy and distinguishes itself in Verne's somber, philosophical questioning of society, religion, nature and man as he neared the end of his life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
At Home in the World
Author: Janet O'SheaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819568373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The compelling story of a beautiful and versatile South Indian dance form
The Begum's Millions
Author: Jules VernePublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Verne's first cautionary tale about the dangers of science — first modern and corrected English translation. 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. François 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.
The Golden Volcano
Author: Jules VernePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803296350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Two Canadian cousins who unexpectedly inherit a Klondike mining claim are thrust into the heart of the perils and hardships of the gold rush, until a deathbed confidence sends them on a quest to find a fabulous gold-filled volcano on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in a dramatic adventure newly translated from the author's original manuscript. Simultaneous.
The Chase of the Golden Meteor
Author: Jules VernePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803296190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The announcement that a solid gold asteroid has fallen to earth creates a worldwide sensation. The discovery of this falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the grandfather of science fiction, Jules Verne. 23 illustrations.
Science-fiction, the Early Years
Author: Everett Franklin BleilerPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Cloak of Aesir
Author: John Wood CampbellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780883553596
Category : Science fiction, American.
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description