Paris in the twentieth century
By: Jules Verne ; translated by Richard Howard ; introduction by Eugen Weber.
Contributors: Howard, Richard, 1929-
Edition: 1st. U.S. ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Description: A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic.