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In 1965 (Paperback)
Albert Robida; Adapted by Brian Stableford
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R587
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Title: Les Vieilles Villes d'Espagne. Notes et souvenirs. Ouvrage
illustre de 125 dessins a la plume par A. Robida reproduits en
fac-simile.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the
development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights
include the development of language, political and educational
systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents
periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion
into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of
new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
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British Library Robida, Albert; 1880. 324 p.; 8 . 10161.ee.1.
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Electric Life (Paperback)
Albert Robida; Adapted by Brian Stableford
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R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
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In Electric Life (1892), Albert Robida imagined the life of the
future, imbued with all kinds of fantastic devices meant to
simplify the lives of their users. The father of science fiction
illustration, and the author of The Clock of the Centuries and The
Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul, Robida (1848-1926) was the most
significant of all of Jules Verne's successors. The novel follows
the adventures of the great inventor Philox Lorris, who wants his
son to marry a woman whom he does not love, instead of his
sweetheart, whom Philox dislikes. This traditional love triangle
allows Robida to unleash his sarcastic predictions, extrapolating
them to what he thought were absurd extremes; but which today's
readers will think tame in comparison with our modern world.
Electric Life no longer qualifies as futuristic fiction, or
alternative history, but it does qualify as steampunk fantasy --
perhaps the ultimate steampunk fantasy, given that it possesses an
innocence that no modern writer, jaded by an excess of historical
knowledge, could ever duplicate. ILLUSTRATED WITH 100 ORIGINAL
ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALBERT ROBIDA.
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