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Robur the Conqueror is a science fiction from Jules Verne.

This book from Verne describes the adventures of Robur - a wannabe conqueror of the world and a great inventor - and Albatross, his incredible heavier-than-air flying machine.

Verne develops the book from the concepts of air-travel that was floating around his time - he recognizes the limitations that balloons had as a travel medium - and predicts the way in which future air transportation was going to be with his development of the flying machine 'Albatross'. This was before airplanes we have now was invented and became a common day-to-day transportation means! The astonishment of the story to the people of the day is tantamount to you reading a story of traveling to Pluto in a small car-sized airborne vehicle, alone! A technology breakthrough.

Note: One must remember that Jules Verne wrote the story in 1886, almost twenty years before the Wright brothers made their first successful powered flights. So he wasn't merely writing a story about a time when only lighter-than-air craft were feasible he was living in that time and projecting forward!

Verne makes 'Albatross' a propeller driven machine powered by electricity and airs his views at the future of balloon travel through the voice of his protagonist 'Robur'. Robur kidnaps a Weldon institute's two professors and proceeds on an around the world air journey in his 'heavier than air' ship the Albatross because people their rebuke him when he says that he has conquered the air. They call him "Robur the Conqueror."

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About the Author: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.

Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.

Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.

Family:

In May 1856, Verne traveled to Amiens to be the best man at the wedding of a Nantes friend, Auguste Lelarge, to an Amiens woman named Aimée du Fraysse de Viane. Verne, invited to stay with the bride's family, took to them warmly, befriending the entire household and finding himself increasingly attracted to the bride's sister, Honorine de Viane Morel, a widow aged 26 with two young children.

Hoping to find a secure source of income, as well as a chance to court Morel in earnest, he jumped at her brother's offer to go into business with a brokerage. Verne's father was initially dubious but gave in to his son's requests for approval in November 1856. With his financial situation finally looking promising, Verne won the favor of Morel and her family, and the couple was married on 10 January 1857.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781536975130
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Edition: Abridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1536975133
  • Publisher Date: 08 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 150
  • Series Title: Best Novel Classics
  • Weight: 258 gr


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