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A new edition of an 1879 novel takes readers back to Jules Verne's complex and hazardous future.
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060305
Author:Michael Dirda
THE BEGUM'S MILLIONS
By Jules Verne
Translated from the French by Stanford L. Luce
Wesleyan Univ. 261 pp. $29.95
Jules Verne is, after Agatha Christie, the most popular writer in the world. Neither -- until recently -- has ever gotten much respect from the academic or critical establishment. What they share, along with some warm-hued period coziness, is a gift for absolute storytelling, for making a reader want to keep turning page after page to see what happens next. Christie does this through her mastery of plotting -- not only eventually revealing "who done it" but, better yet, how ...
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