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A sleepy American town is woken up in the middle of the night by horrifying noises. Terror-stricken citizens claim to have heard unexplained rumblings and there are reports of bright lights emanating from a nearby mountain. As the head police inspector in Washington DC John Strock... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the most recognizable names in Western literature, coming to be known as one of the Fathers of Science-Fiction. Although he studied to be a lawyer and held stock trading jobs, he quickly learned that he had a knack for weaving adventurous stories... Read Full Overview

Master of the World (French: Ma?tre du monde), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. It is a sequel to Robur the Conqueror. At the time Verne wrote the novel, his health was failing. Master of the World is a "black... Read Full Overview

Extra os sucesos est n ocurriendo cerca del Great Eyry, en la parte occidental del estado de Carolina del Norte. El gobierno norteamericano env a a su mejor investigador, John Strock, para descubrir el misterio del fen meno. Al mismo tiempo, se reciben varios informes provenientes... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne, author of such works as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, is recognized as one of the masters of the golden age of science fiction. In The Master of the World, a series of catastrophes strike the Atlantic Seaboard of the United... Read Full Overview

El argumento de la novela refiere las extra as apariciones de una misteriosa nave, tanto como veh culo de alta velocidad en tierra como barco o incluso nave voladora, a lo largo de los Estados Unidos y los est riles esfuerzos de la polic a para detenerla para interrogar a su... Read Full Overview

Volume 53 of 54 of Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages", first printed in 1904.In this sequel to "Robur the Conqueror", the brilliant inventor Robur has returned with a powerful new craft, on that surpasses any piece of machinery of the day. Can Inspector Strock, who is investigating... Read Full Overview

Set in the summer of 1903, a series of unexplained events occur across the eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator John Strock, 'Head inspector in the federal police department' in Washington,... Read Full Overview

O Detetive John Strock recebe uma miss o um tanto entusiasmante: investigar fen menos em uma montanha da Carolina do Norte os quais v m deixando os cidad os de Morganton terrivelmente assustados. Depois de v rias especula es de autoridades, jornais e leigos, alguns eventos chegam... Read Full Overview