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The Steam House

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Original title
  
La Maison à vapeur

Country
  
France

Publication date
  
1880

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Originally published
  
1880

Genre
  
Adventure fiction

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Series
  
The Extraordinary Voyages #20

Similar
  
Jules Verne books, Voyages extraordinaires books, Adventure fiction books

The Steam House (French: La maison à vapeur) is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader travel in nineteenth century India. The descriptions are interspersed with historical information and social commentary.

The book takes place in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against British rule, with the passions and traumas aroused still very much alive among Indians and British alike. An alternate title by which the book was known - "The End of Nana Sahib" - refers to the appearance in the book of the historical figure—Rebel leader Nana Sahib—who disappeared after the crushing of the rebellion, his ultimate fate unknown. Verne offers a fictional explanation to his disappearance.

Alternative titles

  • Demon of Cawnpore (Part 1 of 2)
  • Demon of the Cawnpore (Part 1 of 2)
  • Steam House (Part I) The Demon of Cawnpore
  • Steam House (Part II) Tigers and Traitors
  • Tigers and Traitors (Part 2 of 2)
  • Tigers and Traitors, Steam House (Part 2 of 2)
  • The End of Nana Sahib
  • References

    The Steam House Wikipedia


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