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In 1863 Verne wrote a m anuscript that was rejected by his editor as he thought it w as an unrealistic view of life in the future. Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Worlds
ISBN-10034542039X
ISBN-139780345420398
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038267507
Product Key Features
Book TitleParis in the Twentieth Century : the Lost Novel
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicClassics, Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / General
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJules Verne
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.6 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-094115
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century." -- The New York Times "For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity." --Ray Bradbury "Verne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and 'vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.' Years before they would be invented, Verne has imagined elevators and faxmachines. It was a vision Verne's editor flatly rejected. Contemporary readers know better." -- People "An excellent extrapolation, founded on 19th-century technical novelties, of a future culture." -- The Washington Post Book World "Verne published nearly seventy books, many of them now considered classics. But this little jewel catches him just reaching stride as a writer of science fiction, a genre that he, of course, helped put on the literary map." -- The Denver Post
Dewey Decimal843/.8
SynopsisIn 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too far fetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, and astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time. . . . Praise for Paris in the Twentieth Century "Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century." -- The New York Times "For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity." --Ray Bradbury "Verne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and 'vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.' Years before they would be invented, Verne has imagined elevators and faxmachines. It was a vision Verne's editor flatly rejected. Contemporary readers know better." -- People "An excellent extrapolation, founded on 19th-century technical novelties, of a future culture." -- The Washington Post Book World "Verne published nearly seventy books, many of them now considered classics. But this little jewel catches him just reaching stride as a writer of science fiction, a genre that he, of course, helped put on the literary map." -- The Denver Post