Bison Frontiers of Imagination: The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz : The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript (Hardcover)

from amandrake

Though well-written enough, it's not that interesting to the modern reader - but there's a lot of historical interest in the book, since this is the first English translation based on the actual Jules Verne manuscript and not changed by his son and by publishers. I can see how at the time the nov...

from marysneedle

In "The Secret of Wilhelm Sotritz", Verne is giving us a view of the scientific and spiritual aspects of being invisible. On one hand he addresses the havoc that could ensue if one had the ability to become invisible; the concerns from personal family life to political security that would be bree...

from marysneedle

In "The Secret of Wilhelm Sotritz", Verne is giving us a view of the scientific and spiritual aspects of being invisible. On one hand he addresses the havoc that could ensue if one had the ability to become invisible; the concerns from personal family life to political security that would be bree...