Der Kurier des Zaren
In the generation after Dumas, Jules Verne wrote a number of Wanderer adventures. Three of the most notable, "Michael Strogoff", "The Steam House" ("La Maison à vapeur") and "Mathias Sandorf", are set in three of Europe's great Empires: the Russian, the British (in India), and the Austrian. Their plots and themes have a good deal in common, as Jean Yves Tadie points out. Each one is about the empire's political troubles, each features a pursuer who is himself pursued, each has a trio of characters at its centre and each grants minor importance (compared with other Verne books) to machinery.