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The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne's original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. The quartet... Read Full Overview

Propeller Island (1895), a science fiction novel about a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean inhabited entirely by millionaires, was first published as part of the "Voyages Extraordinaires."

Includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer.

The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne's original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. The quartet... Read Full Overview

Volume 41 of 54 of Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages", first printed in 1895.A string quartet finds themselves playing a most unusual venue: a massive man-made island, known as Standard Island. Larger than any watercraft ever devised, the island is home to only the most wealthy... Read Full Overview

Propeller Island (1895), a science fiction novel about a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean inhabited entirely by millionaires, was first published as part of the "Voyages Extraordinaires."

Includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer.

The Floating Island, or The Pearl of the Pacific (also published as Propeller Island, and as The Self-Propelled Island) is a science fiction novel by French author Jules Verne (1828-1905). It was first published in 1895 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It relates the... Read Full Overview

Cette oeuvre fait partie de la s rie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d' dition tredition, bas e Hambourg, a publi dans la s rie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux mill naires. Ils taient pour la plupart puis s ou unique-ment disponible chez les bouquinistes... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne (1828-1905) est un crivain fran ais, dont une grande partie de l'oeuvre est consacr e des romans d'aventures et de science-fiction (appel s du temps de Jules Verne romans d'anticipation) comme Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre (1864) et Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les... Read Full Overview

Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un quatuor de musiciens fran ais dans une le flottante, le Standard-Island, propuls e, comme l'indique le titre, par des h lices. Cette le flottante contient principalement une ville, Milliard City, habit e uniquement par des gens riches et b n... Read Full Overview

"L' le h lice" de Jules Verne. Jules Verne, crivain fran ais (1828-1905).

L' le h lice, sous-titr Les Milliardaires ridicules, est un roman de science-fiction fran ais de Jules Verne, paru en 1895.

Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un quatuor de musiciens fran ais dans une le flottante, le Standard-Island, propuls e, comme l'indique le titre, par des h lices. Cette le flottante contient principalement une ville, Milliard City, habit e uniquement par des gens riches et b n... Read Full Overview

La route est reprise. On va d'un bon pas pendant deux milles. Aucun incident noter. Nuit qui se fait de plus en plus noire avec menaces de pluie. Quelques gouttes tombent, tr s grosses, preuve qu'elles proviennent de nuages lev s et orageux. Mais l'amphore de la jolie H b... Read Full Overview