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Begum's FortuneJules VernePublisher: Wildside PressMarch 25 2021EAN: 9781592242559ISBN: 1592242553Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.Synopsis: Two heirs to an Indian Begum's estate -- Dr. Francois Sarrasin, a Frenchman, and Professor Schultz, a German -- split 525 million francs. With his half of the money, Sarrasin builds an ideal community called Frankville in the northwestern United States. Schultz uses his half to construct a city called Steeltown, which produces weapons of destruction. Of course, their ideologies clash . . . literally and figuratively.Includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer, as well as an original frontispiece portrait of Jules Verne. Show more