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Book SynopsisIn 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and
Journey to the Center of the Earth, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too far fetched 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, and astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time. . . .
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.&r
