A great English detective and France's leading investigative reporter team up to solve a baffling mystery that will ultimately take them to a network of vast caverns under Paris inhabited by prehistoric monsters, in this tale originally published in 1910.
A great English detective and France's leading investigative reporter team up to solve a baffling mystery that will ultimately take them to a network ...
During the bloody Dutch-Aceh War in Sumatra at the end of the 19th century, 10-year-old George Villiers is about to be sacrificed by a Malay witch doctor when he is rescued by To-Ho, the member of a peaceful tribe of ape-men who secretly live hidden in the jungle. George is then raised among the ape-men, and meets a reclusive scientist who has developed a compound, phoebium, which destroys gold, hoping to save the tribe from hordes of invading prospectors who threaten their isolation... Jules Lermina's To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers was first published in 1905 in Le Journal des Voyages. Its...
During the bloody Dutch-Aceh War in Sumatra at the end of the 19th century, 10-year-old George Villiers is about to be sacrificed by a Malay witch doc...
Driven from China by the Boxers, explorer Alcide Tremalet chances upon a secret futuristic city created in the 18th century by French Protestants fleeing persecution. This New Paris, or "Mysteryville," has mastered the use of sound and light. But will his arrival trigger a civil war with those who seek to rejoin, and perhaps conquer, the outside world and those who wish to preserve their isolation? Mysteryville (1905) is one of Jules Lermina's most original novels. This book also includes his macabre classic story Twice Dead (1895). Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since...
Driven from China by the Boxers, explorer Alcide Tremalet chances upon a secret futuristic city created in the 18th century by French Protestants flee...
Jules Lermina (1839-1915), was one of the most interesting authors of French romans scientifiques in the latter part of the 19th century. This collection of his works includes "The Nail" (1870), the classic "Burn This!" (1888), and the eponymous novella "The Secret of Zippelius" (1893), in which young Conrad Zippelius receives a letter about a mysterious inheritance that comes with a secret that could destroy the world.
Jules Lermina (1839-1915), was one of the most interesting authors of French romans scientifiques in the latter part of the 19th century. This collect...
L'Effrayante Aventure se situe au debut du vingtieme siecle. La decouverte, le matin, d'un corps, au pied de l'Obelisque a Paris, pose un probleme a la police: qui est-il et comment est-il arrive la ? Un policier britannique, de passage a Paris, reconnait la victime... mais cette derniere a ete vue quelques heures auparavant a Londres. Comment cela est-il possible ? A cette enigme policiere succede une deuxieme partie qui est un roman de science-fiction, (ou nous faisons connaissance avec les proprietes du vrillium) suivi du spectacle effrayant de Paris avant la creation de l'homme..."
L'Effrayante Aventure se situe au debut du vingtieme siecle. La decouverte, le matin, d'un corps, au pied de l'Obelisque a Paris, pose un probleme a l...
