The Begum's Millions (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	June 2014
Editors:	Arthur B. Evans
Translators:	Stanford L. Luce
Contributors:	Peter Schulman
Authors:	Jules Verne
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-7469-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-8195-7469-4
Barcode:	9780819574695

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