The Begum's Fortune | Social Concerns

Jules Verne is most famous for his futuristic novels which, in retrospect, contain some amazingly accurate scientific forecasts. In this novel, his chief concern is the use of horrendous military weapons by a totalitarian power bent on destroying innocent human beings. Like most of his novels, this one has a factual basis. The Franco-Prussian war had ended not too long before the writing of the novel with terrible results for France, especially the loss of Alsace -Lorraine. As a French patriot, Verne feared the military expansionism of Germany, and it may not have been a coincidence that...

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