Title: I can see why it was never released.
Product review: Verne's publisher called this "lackluster and lifeless," so it was locked up in a safe and never released.Reading it, I can understand why. The characters are boring and predictable, and the dialogue is flat. Verne's vision of the future is not particularly intriguing.Really, this book is only worth reading for Verne's sometimes prophetic predictions. He imagines the elevator, the automobile and fax machines, for example.Not horrible, but not up to the standard I expect from Verne.
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