Mathias Sandorf
Book description
What do you do when your enemies betray you and prosper? Amass a fortune and destroy them one by one. A tribute to Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, Mathias Sandorf is classic Verne. Includes cryptograms, pirates and acrobats.
Trieste, 1867. Two petty criminals, Sarcany and Zirone, intercept a carrier…
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1 author picked Mathias Sandorf as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m a big fan of Jules Verne and have been trying to read through his body of work. It’s difficult because they keep adding new, previously unpublished, or untranslated works. Verne wrote well over 60 novels, and not all of them were what would be classified as science fiction. Many were travelogues.
This one was Verne’s homage to Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. He dedicated it to Dumas, and it has an introduction by Dumas’ son, with whom Verne was a close friend.
Even though it’s not science fiction, it has a secret code, an elliptical whispering…
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