![]() Engineering and banking are the prime industries of this civilization and, as the book's protagonist discovers, not even the most talented poet can find a place for himself unless he's willing to produce odes to blast furnaces or locomotives. His mid-20th century Paris is an enormously wealthy society, a place of technological wonders, but, like Huxley's Brave New World, it is also a society without meaningful art. This novel, however, shows Verne in a darker, frankly dystopian mood. Verne's early books tend to feature adventure plots and a positive attitude towards technology. Now it has been rendered into English by the eminent poet and translator Richard Howard. That manuscript apparently disappeared into a drawer, not to see the light of day again until it was rediscovered and published in 1994. The publisher, however, rejected Verne's second manuscript, opting to bring out his Journey to the Center of the Earth instead. ![]() In 1863, Jules Verne was a young writer with one published novel under his belt and a new multibook contract with a prominent French publisher in hand. ![]()
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