Paris in the Twentieth Century

“Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century.”—The New York Times“For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction … this book is an absolute necessity.”—Ray Bradbury“Verne’s Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and ‘vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.’ Years before they would be invented, Verne has imagined elevators and faxmachines. It was a vision Verne’s editor flatly rejected. Contemporary readers know better.”—People“An excellent extrapolation, founded on 19th-century technical novelties, of a future culture.”—The Washington Post Book World“Verne published nearly seventy books, many of them now considered classics. But this little jewel catches him just reaching stride as a writer of science fiction, a genre that he, of course, helped put on the literary map.”—The Denver Post

Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and died in 1905. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in 80 Days, among others. Verne is the second most translated author in the world, after Agatha Christie and before Shakespeare.

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