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Paris in the Twentieth Century ( French: Paris au XXe siècle) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The book presents Paris in August 1960, 97 years in Verne's future, when society places value only on business and technology. Written in 1863, [1] but first published in 1994, the novel follows a young man who struggles unsuccessfully to ...
- Jules Verne, Julia Escobar, Piero Gondolo della Riva
- 1994
Jan 1, 2001 · Paris au XXe siècle = Paris in the Twentieth Century, Jules Verne Paris in the Twentieth Century is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1863 but first published 131 years later (1994). The novel follows a young man who struggles unsuccessfully to live in a technologically advanced, but culturally backwards world.
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Jun 2, 2022 · Paris in the twentieth century by Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Publication date 1997 Topics Large type books, Paris (France) -- Fiction Publisher Thornike, Me. : G.K. Hall
Oct 21, 1997 · Praise for Paris in the Twentieth Century “Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century.” — The New York Times “For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity.” —Ray Bradbury “Verne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and ‘vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.’
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- Jules Verne, Julia Escobar, Piero Gondolo della Riva
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Paris in the Twentieth 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.
- Jules Verne
- Richard Howard
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Oct 21, 1997 · Praise for Paris in the Twentieth Century“Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century.”—The New York Times“For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity.”—Ray Bradbury“Verne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and ‘vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.’
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Books. Paris in the Twentieth Century. Jules Verne. Random House, 1996 - Fiction - 222 pages. This newly rediscovered novel, written by Jules Verne in 1863, is set in Paris in 1960. Money and technology have taken over society and the narrator, a young poet, is forced to work in a bank. Verne's vision of our mechanized time is prescient: there ...
