The Begum's Fortune
1879 novel by Jules Verne / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Begum's Fortune (French: Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum, literally "the 500 millions of the begum"), also published as The Begum's Millions, is an 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some utopian elements and other elements that seem clearly dystopian. It is noteworthy as the first published book in which Verne was cautionary, and somewhat pessimistic about the development of science and technology.[citation needed]
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Author | Jules Verne |
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Original title | Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum |
Translator | Mrs. Agnes Kinloch Kingston and W. H. G. Kingston (1879), I. O. Evans (1958), Stanford L. Luce (2005) |
Illustrator | Léon Benett |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Series | Voyages extraordinaires #18 |
Genre | Utopian and dystopian fiction, Science fiction[1] |
Publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Publication date | 1879 |
Published in English | 1879 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Preceded by | Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen |
Followed by | Tribulations of a Chinaman in China |
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