Paris in the Twentieth Century

Paris in the Twentieth Century

222 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 1994
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ISBN: 9780345420398

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Del Rey

Publication date: 21 October 1997

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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 . . .