Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel Sunday, August 2 2009.

• THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time . . .

Shelfari edited the contributors of Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jules Verne: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Richard Howard: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Paris in the Twentieth Century: Jules Verne, The Lost Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• On August 13, 1960, a portion of the Parisian populace headed for the many Metro stations from which various local trains would take them to what had once been the Champ-de-Mars.