The Begum's Fortune ( also 'The Begum's Millions' )

( French - Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum - 1879 )

novel by Jules Verne and Paschal Grousset

translated by Agnes Kinloch Kingston then I.O. Evans then Stanford L. Luce

Published - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington - 1879
ISBN: none

Ace Books - paperback - 1958 - translated by I.O. Evans
ISBN: none

Wesleyan University Press - hardback - 2005 ( as 'The Begum's Millions' in the 'Early Classics of Science Fiction' series ) translated by Stanford L. Luce
ISBN: 0819567965 / 9780819567963

Wesleyan University Press - e-book - 2013
eISBN: 0819574597 / 9780819574596
ASIN: B00HK72XKQ

Wesleyan University Press - trade paperback - 2014
ISBN: 0819574694 / 9780819574695


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.

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films
Tajemství Ocelového města ( The Secret of Steel City 1979 ) is a Czech film based on The Begum's Fortune