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The Begum's Millions, Paperback / softback Book

The Begum's Millions Paperback / softback

Edited by Arthur B. Evans

Paperback / softback

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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. Francois Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high-tech weapons of war.

Its German creator, the fanatically pro-Aryan Herr Schultze, is Verne's first truly evil scientist.

In his quest for world domination and racial supremacy, Schultze decides to showcase his deadly wares by destroying France-Ville and all its inhabitants.

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.

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