Michael Strogoff: or, The Courier of the Czar
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The tsar's courier carries a message to Irkutsk through a Tartar rising, with a false brother on the road, a journalist on each flank, and the certainty that if he is recognised he will not arrive. Verne's publisher Hetzel had the manuscript read by Turgenev, so that nothing in it would give offence in St Petersburg. The scene of the sabre and the eyes is among the cruellest things in nineteenth-century adventure. Twenty plates of nineteenth-century battle painting by Adolf Schreyer and Bogdan Willewalde, from Saragossa to the Spicherer Berg, give the courier's ride its smoke and cavalry.
The tsar's courier carries a message to Irkutsk through a Tartar rising, with a false brother on the road, a journalist on each flank, and the certainty that if he is recognised he will not arrive. Verne's publisher Hetzel had the manuscript read by Turgenev, so that nothing in it would give offe...
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Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist born in Nantes, sent to Paris to study law and diverted into the theatre and then into fiction. His Extraordinary Voyages ran to over fifty volumes and he remains among the most translated authors in the world. His works include Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist born in Nantes, sent to Paris to study law and diverted into the theatre and then into fiction. His Extraordinary Voyages ran to over fifty volumes and he remains among the most translated authors in the world. His works include Journey to the Centre ...
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