The Begum's Five Hundred Million.: Extraordinary Voyages #18

By Jules Verne and Julio Verne

Book Overview

The Begum's Fortune (French: Les Cinq cents millions de la B?gum), also published as The Begum's Millions, is an 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some elements which could be described as utopian and others which seem clearly dystopian. It is remarkable as the first published book in which Verne was cautionary and to some degree pessimistic about the development of science and technology.Two men receive the news that they are part-inheritors to a vast fortune due to being the last surviving descendants of a French soldier-of-fortune who many years before settled in India and married the immensely rich widow of one of its native princes - the begum of the title.One of the inheritors is a gentle French physician, Dr. Sarrasin, who has long been concerned with the unsanitary conditions of the European cities. He decides to use his share of the inheritance to establish a utopian model city which would be constructed and maintained with public health as the primary concern of its government.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1535547987
• ISBN13: 9781535547987
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"