Paris in the twentieth century / Jules Verne ; translated by Richard Howard ; introduction by Eugen Weber.
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- ISBN: 034542039X (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition: 1st. Ballantine Books ed.
- Publisher: New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1997.
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General Note: | "A Del Rey book"--T.p. verso. |
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Subject: | Paris (France) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Science fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A novel originally written in 1863 presents a forecast of Paris in 1960, a world where money and technology control society and a young poet finds himself out of place in the materialistic, mechanistic society. Reprint. - Baker & Taylor
A novel originally written in 1863 presents a forecast of Paris in 1960, a world where money and technology control society and a young poet finds himself out of place in the materialistic, mechanistic society - Random House, Inc.
In 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
âJules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century.ââThe New York Times
âFor anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity.ââRay Bradbury
âVerne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and âvehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.â 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.ââPeople
âAn excellent extrapolation, founded on 19th-century technical novelties, of a future culture.ââThe Washington Post Book World
âVerne 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.ââThe Denver Post