Jules Verne...help identifying a story.....

[simon the viking]

I'm a massive Jules Verne fan... Finding his work (translated...sometimes recently....I'll admit) far more readable than his British comtemoprories (within a decade or 2) of Dickens and HG Wells but that's a debate for another day....

Anyway I digress I've read all his big stuff......20000 leagues and it's 2 sequels, also 80 days, round the moon.... I even ordered a paper copy of a previously 'lost' novel the underground city on publishing day.....

I Remember a european TV series early 80's dubbed\narrated in to English, based on one of his novels\short story about two states one on each side of a ravine.... One was an oppressive Prussian type state, the other a gentle farming state... Think there were brothers involved in the story.....

I've trawled the internet looking for its title so I can read the story.....but can't find it. I want to try and get a copy for reading on a forthcoming holiday......

So with a wide range of collected knowledge I thought I'd ask on Cc......

Any ideas?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

His bibliography is on wiki, most have plot outlines so that should help you identify it.

 

[simon the viking]

His bibliography is on wiki, most have plot outlines so that should help you identify it.

I Think I tried that a few months ago and nothing came up like it... But will have another look

 

[midlife]

http://epguides.com/djk/JulesVerne/works.shtml

Propeller Island seems the best bet?

Shaun

 

[swansonj]

When I was about 9 years old I had an interview for the prospective secondary school I might go to.

"What are you reading at the moment?"

Me: "I'm reading quite a bit of Jules Verne at the moment."

"Oh, which ones?" (Clearly expecting twenty thousand leagues, journey, from the earth to the moon...)

Me: "I've just finished Michael Strogoff Courier of the Tzar and before that I read the Mysterious Island"

Short silence in which even my immature and precocious nine year old self realised I might have said something slightly unusual....

 

[simon the viking]

http://epguides.com/djk/JulesVerne/works.shtml

Propeller Island seems the best bet?

Shaun

Thanks for the reply... But just read synopsis.... Sorry not the one

 

[simon the viking]

When I was about 9 years old I had an interview for the prospective secQUOTE="swansonj, post: 4391424, member: 15437"]When I was about 9 years old I had an interview for the prospective secondary school I might go to.

"What are you reading at the moment?"

Me: "I'm reading quite a bit of Jules Verne at the moment."

"Oh, which ones?" (Clearly expecting twenty thousand leagues, journey, from the earth to the moon...)

Me: "I've just finished Michael Strogoff Courier of the Tzar and before that I read the Mysterious Island"

Short silence in which even my immature and precocious nine year old self realised I might have said something slightly unusual....

Jules Verne was the reason I got a kindle as it is so difficult to buy anything other than 80 days and 20000 leagues as physical copies

 

[MontyVeda]

Mathias Sandorf?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

There is no Verne novel or story I can think of, or can find in the bibliographies, that fits. I wonder whether the TV series you remember was one of those that used the writer as an 'inspiration' rather being specific adaptations?

 

[ufkacbln]

Jules Verne was the reason I got a kindle as it is so difficult to buy anything other than 80 days and 20000 leagues as physical copies

OT...

Are you familiar with Project Gutenberg?

 

[ufkacbln]

The only on I can think of that fits the OP would be Begum's Millions (or Fortune)

When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. Francois Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high-tech weapons of war. Its German creator, the fanatically pro-Aryan Herr Schultze, is Verne's first truly evil scientist. In his quest for world domination and racial supremacy, Schultze decides to showcase his deadly wares by destroying France-Ville and all its inhabitants. Both prescient and cautionary, The Begum's Millions is a masterpiece of scientific and political speculation and constitutes one of the earliest technological utopia/dystopias in Western literature.

Link

Bad news is that Gutenberg only has one version How is your French?

A quick Google also shows that this book was filmed in 1979 and available on YouTube..... with a river valley as opposed to a ravine though:




Could be completely wrong, but from my memory and Google,this looks like a good fit

 

[ufkacbln]

... and if that is the one, you can either download, or my favvourite source for old and unusual books Abe Books can print you a version at a reasonable price. or obtain a second hand copy

 

[simon the viking]

The only on I can think of that fits the OP would be Begum's Millions (or Fortune)



Link

Bad news is that Gutenberg only has one version How is your French?

A quick Google also shows that this book was filmed in 1979 and available on YouTube..... with a river valley as opposed to a ravine though:




Could be completely wrong, but from my memory and Google,this looks like a good fit

And the winner is...... @Cunobelin

Many thanks I'll try and track down a copy

 

[simon the viking]

It wasn't on my Kindle Jules Verne 'works' but was available as a separate volume at 49p... Fab it's a novel as well.... holiday reading sorted!

 

[ufkacbln]

There are a number of free downloads if you google hard enough