{"product_id":"9780345420398","title":"Paris in the Twentieth Century","description":"In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of \u003ci\u003e20,000 Leagues Under the Sea \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJourney to the Center of the Earth, \u003c\/i\u003ewrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too far fetched 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 \u003ci\u003eParis in the Twentieth Century, \u003c\/i\u003eand astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time. . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eParis in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jules Verne was the Michael Crichton of the 19th century.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For anyone interested in the history of speculative fiction . . . this book is an absolute necessity.”\u003cb\u003e—Ray Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verne's Paris is a bustling, overcrowded metropolis teeming with starving homeless and ‘vehicles that passed on paved roads and moved without horses.’ Years before they would be invented, Verne has imagined elevators and faxmachines. It was a vision Verne's editor flatly rejected. Contemporary readers know better.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent extrapolation, founded on 19th-century technical novelties, of a future culture.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Verne published nearly seventy books, many of them now considered classics. But this little jewel catches him just reaching stride as a writer of science fiction, a genre that he, of course, helped put on the literary map.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Jules Verne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46067826262228,"sku":"9780345420398","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7bf26ab4-a5ee-4cf3-849a-76d74929e9af.jpg?v=1733913383","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780345420398","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}