Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar - Softcover

Verne, Jules

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594624321 ISBN 13: 9781594624322

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2006

Synopsis

During the whole evening the bands of the Preobra-jensky and Paulowsky regiments had played without cessation polkas, mazurkas, schottisches, and waltzes from among the choicest of their repertoires. Innumerable couples of dancers whirled through the magnificent saloons of the palace, which stood at a few paces only from the "old house of stones"-in former days the scene of so many terrible dramas, the echoes of whose walls were this night awakened by the gay strains of the musicians.

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About the Author

Jules Verne (1828 –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, Michael Strogoff: The Courier of The Czar and Around the World in Eighty Days. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594624321
• ISBN 13: 9781594624322
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408