Paris in the Twentieth Century |
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| Author:
| Verne, Jules |
| Series title: | Random House Value Publishing - Remainder Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-517-33138-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1998 |
| Publisher: | Random House Value Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $4.99 |
Book Description:
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THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched 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, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction...
More DescriptionTHE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched 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, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time . . .