A Fantasy of Dr.Ox (Hesperus Classics)

A Fantasy of Dr.Ox (Hesperus Classics)
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
112
ISBN
 
1843910675
Издатель
 
Wordsworth Editions Limited
Категория
 
Verne, Jules

Содержание:

The Mark of the Beast, The Return of Imray, The Phantom Rickshaw, The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, "They", In the Same Boat, The Dog Hervey, The House Surgeon, The Wish House, A Matter of Fact, "Swept and Garnished", Mary Postgate, A Madonna of the Trenches, "At the End of the Passage", The Bisara of Pooree, The Lost Legion, The Dream of Duncan Parrenness, The Tomb of His Ancestors, By Word of Mouth, My Own True Ghost Story

Описание:

Writing with a philosophical eye worthy of the eighteenth century, and the subtle irony of Voltaire, Verne tells the tale of Dr Ox - one of his most inspired, and insane, visionaries. Something very strange is in the air of the harmonious town of Quiquendone. Unknown to the inhabitants, the mad genius Dr Ox has unleashed a veil of oxy-hydric gas over the town - his own living laboratory - in 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 society - and the modern resonance is unmissable - can be manipulated by its masters into hatred and war.

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