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The Begum's Fortune

(1879)
(Book 18 in the Voyages Extraordinaires series)
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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.


Genre: Science Fiction

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