Book Details
⚡️Book Title : A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
⚡Book Author : Jules Verne
⚡Page : 112 pages
⚡Published October 1st 2003 by Hesperus Press (first published 1872)
A Fantasy of Dr. Ox - Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to its inhabitants, the mad genius Dr. Ox has unleashed a veil of oxyhydric gas over the townhis own living laboratoryin an attempt to spice things up. In his amusing portrait of an idyllic community suddenly overtaken by an appetite for aggression, Jules Verne points to the ease with which any societyand the modern resonance is unmissablecan be manipulated by its masters into hatred and war. Jules Verne was the originator of modern science fiction; among his works are Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to its inhabitants, the mad genius Dr. Ox has unleashed a veil of oxyhydric gas over the townhis own living laboratoryin an attempt to spice things up. In his amusing portrait of an idyllic community suddenly overtaken by an appetite for aggression, Jules Verne points to the ease with which any societyand the modern resonance is unmissablecan be manipulated by its masters into hatred and war. Jules Verne was the originator of modern science fiction; among his works are Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
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