Paris in the Twentieth Century
By (author): "Eugen Weber, Richard Howard, Jules Verne"
Publish Date:
1994
ISBN034542039X
ISBN139780345420398
AsinParis in the Twentieth Century
Original titleParis au XXe siècle
THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURYIn 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 . . .
