Paris in the twentieth century / Jules Verne ; translated by Richard Howard ; introduction by Eugen Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.

Contributor:

Howard, Richard, 1929-2022, translator.

Burkhardt, Mark, illustrator.

Wenngren, Anders, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Paris au XXe siècle. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Paris (France)--Fiction.

Paris (France).

Genre:

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Ballantine Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1997.

Summary:

A novel originally written in 1863 presents a forecast of Paris in 1960, a world where money and technology control society and a young poet finds himself out of place in the materialistic, mechanistic society.

Notes:

"A Del Rey book"--Title page verso.

Cover art: Mark Burkhardt. Interior illustrations by Anders Wenngren.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy is the 11th printing. Has piece of University mail laid in book.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 371321

ISBN:

034542039X

9780345420398

OCLC:

39060407

Online:

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