La chasse au météore by Jules Verne
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"La chasse au météore" by Jules Verne is a novel written in 1901 and published posthumously in 1908. The story follows two rival amateur astronomers in a small American town who both claim discovery of a new meteor. When the meteor proves to be made of solid gold, their competition intensifies. Meanwhile, an eccentric inventor develops a device capable of controlling where the precious celestial object will fall. More social satire than
science fiction, the novel lampoons human greed, obsession, and vanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Roux, George, 1853-1929 |
| Title | La chasse au météore |
| Original Publication | Paris: Hetzel, 1908. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chasse_au_m%C3%A9t%C3%A9ore |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_of_the_Golden_Meteor |
| Credits | Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Subject | Greed -- Fiction |
| Subject | Meteors -- Fiction |
| Subject | Amateur astronomy -- Fiction |
| Subject | National characteristics, American -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76724 |
| Release Date | Aug 24, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3920 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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