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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.

Washington Post Book World "This edition of The Begum's Millions is a significant work of scholarship and an important contribution to the ongoing project of reclaiming and redefining Verne's reputation in the English-speaking world."―Gary K.

Wolfe, Professor of Humanities and English, Roosevelt University/5(5). Washington Post Book World "This edition of The Begum's Millions is a significant work of scholarship and an important contribution to the ongoing project of reclaiming and redefining Verne's reputation in the English-speaking world."—Gary K.

Wolfe, Professor of Humanities and English, Roosevelt University.5/5(1). The begum's fortune Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED. EMBED (for hosted blogs and item tags) Want more. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help. No_Favorite. share Pages: Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum = The Begum's Fortune The Begums millions book The Begum's Millions (Extraordinary Voyages #18), Jules Verne The Begum's Fortune (French: Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum), also published as The Begum's Millions, is an novel by Jules Verne, with some elements which could be described as utopian and others which seem clearly dystopian/5(61).

A Sci-Fi novel by the French author Jules Verne, The Begum's Millions, also published in English as The Begum's Fortune, or, in its original name, Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum (Five Hundred Millions of the Begum), it marks a period in Verne's life, when his outlook started to turn progressively bleak, and Real Life started to write the plot.

But "The Begum's Millions" is not simply a nationalistic, chauvinistic French work The Begums millions book the time, but also a novelistic treatment in the genre of "Brave New World" and "" of central political and cultural subjects and controversies of the modern era. Industrialization, urban life, the benefits of improved health brought by science, political /5(4).

The Begum's millions / Jules Verne --Mr. Sharp makes his entrance --Two friends --A news item --Divided in two --The city of steel --The Albrecht mine --The central block --The dragon's lair --Absent without leave --An article from Unsere Centurie, a German journal --Dinner at Dr.

Sarrasin's --The council --Letter from Marcel Bruckmann to. Washington Post Book World "This edition of The Begum's Millions is a significant work of scholarship and an important contribution to the ongoing project of reclaiming and redefining Verne's reputation in the English-speaking world."—Gary K.

Wolfe, Professor of Humanities and English, Roosevelt University. THE BEGUM'S MILLIONS is a little-known work by Jules Verne which follows the contest between two men, the inheritors of a vast fortune.

The men, one French and the other German, believe in their innate superiority of their respective nations--and each man sets out to prove it. The Frenchman, Dr. The Begum's Millions Jules Verne, Author, Arthur B. Evans, Editor, Stanford L.

Luce, Translator Wesleyan University Press $ (p) ISBN. 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/5(K). The Begum's Millions | 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. The Begum's Millions (Book): Verne, Jules. Do NOT return library materials until the library reopens. There will be no late fines on items returned.

“Millions” is a children’s novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce in which brothers Damian and Anthony Cunningham come into possession nearly two hundred thirty-thousand pounds stirling just before England’s transition to the euro on Decem When the novel begins, Damian, Anthony, and their father have moved into a brand new house in.

ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: xxxix, pages: illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents: The Begum's millions / Jules Verne --Mr.

Sharp makes his entrance --Two friends --A news item --Divided in two --The city of steel --The Albrecht mine --The central block --The dragon's lair --Absent without leave --An article from Unsere Centurie, a. 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. /5(5). : The Begum's Millions (Early Classics Of Science Fiction) () by Verne, Jules and a great selection of similar New, Used /5(K).

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, Octavo, New edition. The first modern translation of LES CINQ CENTS MILLIONS DE LA BEGUM SUIVI DE LES REVOLTES DE LA BOUNTYan important but often neglected Jules Verne story. It is Verne's first cautionary novel, a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation that provides an early.

There's a lot more to Jules Verne than what you find in those old, albeit quite wonderful, Disney movies."--Washington Post Book World"This edition of The Begum's Millions is a significant work of scholarship and an important contribution to the ongoing project of reclaiming and redefining Verne's reputation in the English-speaking world.

After reading this book I feel like I need to research the character of the Begums of Bhopal. While the author writes accurately about the historical aspect of Bhopal.

His personal bias seeps through this work. Descended from one side of the family, he maligns the character of the members of the other side of his family/5.Millions of the Begum New York Fireside Companion George Munro New York New York Fireside Companion #s - Published September to December in a weekly format.

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