A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne

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Author Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Title A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners
Original Publication United States: Charles Scribner's Sons,1904.
Note Translation of: Une ville flottante, and Les forceurs de blocus.
Note Reading ease score: 68.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Credits Richard Hulse, Guus Snijders and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Summary "A Floating City and The Blockade Runners" by Jules Verne is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the journeys and adventures during a sea voyage aboard the "Great Eastern," a colossal steamship designed to carry passengers across the Atlantic. The narrative follows a variety of characters, including travelers, engineers, and sailors, delving into their hopes and interactions as they navigate their way to America. The opening of "A Floating City" sets the stage for the story, beginning with the narrator's arrival in Liverpool in March 1867, preparing for a voyage on the "Great Eastern." The narrator describes the ship as an engineering marvel, likening it to a floating city, and depicts the chaotic and bustling atmosphere on board as preparations for the journey unfold. As passengers, including the narrator's friend Fabian, embark on this remarkable vessel, the text teases early character dynamics and foreshadows underlying tensions, particularly regarding drastic changes that may emerge within the group. This initial segment establishes not only the ship's significant historical context but also hints at personal stories of ambition and heartbreak intertwined with the broader adventure of crossing the Atlantic. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Great Eastern (Steamship) -- Fiction
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 67829
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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