Michael Strogoff, with eBook, Jules Verne
Michael Strogoff, with eBook, Jules Verne
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Michael Strogoff, with eBook

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: John Bolen

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian control.

No man is more capable of handling such a dangerous mission than Michael Strogoff. A native of Siberia, he knows the people and their languages, the challenging terrain, and how to survive the harsh winters. His great strength and courage are also matched by a kind and generous heart. Hunger, fatigue, capture, torture—nothing except death will stop him from completing his mission.

About Jules Verne

French author Jules Verne was born in the port of Nantes in 1828. He later moved to Paris to study law. At age twenty-eight, he married Honorine de Viane, a young widow with two children. Verne published several plays under the tutelage of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He made his living as a stockbroker until his first successful series, Voyages Extraordinaire, was published in 1863. Soon Verne's novels became enormously popular around the world. Without a scientific background or experiences as a traveler, Verne spent much of his time doing research for his books. However, when the logic of the story contradicted scientific knowledge, Verne took poetic license with science to serve his fast-paced adventures.

Verne's stories caught the spirit of the nineteenth century and its uncritical enthusiasm about scientific progress and invention. His works were often written in the form of a travel book taking the readers on fantastic voyages. Many of Verne's ideas have been hailed as prophetic, predicting some of the inventions that have changed our world, including the airplane, the submarine, and spacecraft. He published sixty-five novels, some twenty short stories and essays, thirty plays, an opera libretto and two geographical works.

In the first part of his career Verne expressed optimism about progress and Europe's central role in the social and technical development of the world. In Verne's later novels, the author's pessimism is reflected in the doom-laden fin-de-siècle atmosphere. In contrast to the adventurous spirit of his novels, Verne's personal life was relatively uneventful, with the exception of his surviving a murder attempt by his insane nephew. Verne died of natural causes in Amiens on March 24, 1905.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on November 30, 2023

Tearful. Russia, 19th century. Miguel Strogoff is a courier and one of the most trusted soldiers of the Czar Alexander II. When rumors are heard about plans of his great adversary Feofar Khan invading Siberia, the Czar sends Strogoff in an impossible mission against time to warn his brother, the G......more

Goodreads review by Henry on September 20, 2024

Michael(Michel) Strogoff a brave courier in Czar's Alexander the Second's service, is sent as a secret agent to Siberia. He will deliver a vital message to the at risk Emperor's brother. And hopefully the letter will prevent a dangerous... Tartar rebellion from spreading in that Siberian province. A......more