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Original title Une ville flottante Publication date 1871 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Country France Originally published 1871 Genre Adventure fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series The Extraordinary Voyages #8 Similar Jules Verne books, Voyages extraordinaires books, Adventure fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Floating City, or sometimes translated The Floating City, (French: Une ville flottante) is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871 in France. At the time of its publication, the novel enjoyed a similar level of popularity as Around the World in Eighty Days. The first UK and US editions of the novel appeared in 1874. Jules Férat provided the original illustrations for the novel.
Plot
It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her abusive husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board.
References
A Floating City Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA