Robur the Conqueror

By Verne, Jules

Book Id: WPLBN0000625480
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Robur the Conqueror
Author:	Verne, Jules
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS. BANG! Bang! The pistol shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. Neither of the adversaries was hit. Who were these two gentlemen? We do not know, although this would be an excellent opportunity to hand down their names to posterity. All we can say is that the elder was an Englishman and the younger an American, and both of them were old enough to know better. So far as recording in what locality the inoffensive ruminant had just tasted her last tuft of herbage, nothing can be easier. It was on the left bank of Niagara, not far from the suspension bridge which joins the American to the Canadian bank three miles from the falls.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Robur the Conqueror, 1 -- Jules Verne, 1 -- ? Chapter 1 ? MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS, 2 -- ? Chapter 2 ? AGREEMENT IMPOSSIBLE, 6 -- ? Chapter 3 ? A VISITOR IS ANNOUNCED, 8 -- ? Chapter 4 ? IN WHICH A NEW CHARACTER APPEARS, 11 -- ? Chapter 5 ? ANOTHER DISAPPEARANCE, 15 -- ? Chapter 6 ? THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY SUSPEND HOSTILITIES, 19 -- ? Chapter 7 ? ON BOARD THE ALBATROSS, 25 -- ? Chapter 8 ? THE BALLOONISTS REFUSE TO BE CONVINCED, 28 -- ? Chapter 9 ? ACROSS THE PRAIRIE, 33 -- ? Chapter 10 ? WESTWARD ? BUT WHITHER?, 36 -- ? Chapter 11 ? THE WIDE PACIFIC, 39 -- ? Chapter 12 ? THROUGH THE HIMALAYAS, 44 -- ? Chapter 13 ? OVER THE CASPIAN, 46 -- ? Chapter 14 ? THE AERONEF AT FULL SPEED, 53 -- ? Chapter 15 ? A SKIRMISH IN DAHOMEY, 57 -- ? Chapter 16 ? OVER THE ATLANTIC, 63 -- ? Chapter 17 ? THE SHIPWRECKED CREW, 67 -- ? Chapter 18 ? OVER THE VOLCANO, 70 -- ? Chapter 19 ? ANCHORED AT LAST, 74 -- ? Chapter 20 ? THE WRECK OF THE ALBATROSS, 79 -- ? Chapter 21 ? THE INSTITUTE AGAIN, 83 -- ? Chapter 22 ? THE GO?AHEAD IS LAUNCHED, 87 -- ? Chapter 23 ? THE GRAND COLLAPSE, 90