The Master of the World
About this ebook
What happens when one man strikes terror into the heart of a country? Or even an entire world?
An indescribable contraption, faster than a locomotive, striking like a thunderbolt, stirring up a whirlwind so strong it ripped the branches from trees in its wake, and leaving pedestrians in fear for their lives.
Those in power send out investigators like John Strock. His mission? Find the mysterious enigma and capture it. How hard can it be?
Written near the end of his life, this Jules Verne novel draws the reader into a battle of wits, government against genius, and at its center a mysterious flying machine centuries ahead of its time.
With a new foreword by Victoria Price, daughter of Vincent Price, the "King of Horror" and star of the 1961 film Master of the World.
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About the author
Jules Verne, often considered one of the "fathers of science fiction," was born in France on February 8, 1828. Besides being a novelist, he also wrote poems and plays. Verne took stories told to him, combined with his own personal experiences, and used them as jumping-off points for his books. While Verne wrote many books that were set in far-off places, he rarely traveled from France.
Some of his best-known works are Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Verne, ill from diabetes and having suffered an earlier stroke, which paralyzed his right side, died on March 24, 1905. The Master of the World, written as his health was failing, documents the author's fear of global tyrants and totalitarianism.
