Jules Verne
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| Title | : | A Fantasy of Dr. Ox |
| Author | : | Jules Verne |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 112 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2003 by Hesperus Press (first published 1872) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Science Fiction. Cultural. France. Fantasy. Humor |
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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 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. 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.Present Books In Favor Of A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
| Original Title: | Une fantaisie du docteur Ox |
| ISBN: | 1843910675 (ISBN13: 9781843910671) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.44 From 772 Users | 42 ReviewsCritique Epithetical Books A Fantasy of Dr. Ox
Won't accept someone can be that brutalBir solukta okuyacağınız alt metni oldukça kuvvetli bir novella!
Fun--kind of like a hit of nitrous oxide. But awfully slight to be a book--and topical (I assume this is all a lampoon of the Prussian invasion--published in 1872 like it was). And the phlegmatic Flemish town and townsfolk were very very very phlegmatic indeed. Still, the last line but one is a hoot (in a snide kind of way): "Might it be that virtue, courage, talent, intelligence and imagination--all these qualities or faculties--are nothing but a question of oxygen?" Maybe I should challenge
Interesting little thinker about the origin of passion and emotion, and the consequences, both positive (art, progress) and negative (war, violence).
Jules Verne's novels are often regarded as children's lit. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World In a Day", "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" are often found on the Young Adult/Children's shelves. Personally, having read "20,000 Leagues" in Jr. High and again as a an adult, I can say I got more out of it as an adult than a teenager. I suspect Verne's books have more depth than they're given credit for.But if there was ever a Jules Verne tale that should be classified as
La edición leÃda es la de Sáenz de Jubera en el tomo II de las Obras Completas de Julio Verne, de 1910 aproximadamente.No me habÃa dado cuenta, pero la historia se lleva a cabo en Flandes, territorio holandés (aunque posiblemente en la época de Verne no fuera asÃ), y retrata a los holandeses como abúlicos, gandulotes y completamente pachorrudos e irresolutos. Evidentemente, estamos ante una humorada, un chiste en forma de novela corta, asà que no podemos hacer mucho caso de la seriedad que Verne
Quiquendone is a self-sufficient land of barley-sugar and whipped cream. Already, I am hungry, and happy. Gloriously, this state of affairs was to continue throughout A Fantasy of Dr Ox.Jules Verne is the author who catapulted me into a certain type of book, when, very young, I gobbled up Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the Moon, and From the Earth to the Moon in a weekend, and then everything else I could find of his in the weeks shortly afterwards. I have read Journey to the Centre
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