Title: The Begum's Fortune
Title Record # 22321
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1880-00-00
Variant Title of: Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum [French] (1879) (by A. Laurie and Jules Verne) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 18
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English
Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Internet Archive (1), Utopia (1), dystopia (1)
Author: Jules Verne
Date: 1880-00-00
Variant Title of: Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum [French] (1879) (by A. Laurie and Jules Verne) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Series: Voyages extraordinaires
Series Number: 18
Webpages: archive.org
Language: English
Note: Translated by W. H. G. Kingston
This translation begins:
"Really these English newspapers are very well written," said the worthy doctor to himself, as he leant back in the great leathern easy-chair.
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Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), Internet Archive (1), Utopia (1), dystopia (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Begum's Fortune | 1880-00-00 | Jules Verne | Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington | 7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
vii+ 272 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Léon Benett | ||
| The Begum's Fortune | 1880-00-00 | Jules Verne | J. B. Lippincott |
vii+ 272 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Léon Benett | |||
| The Lottery Ticket and The Begum's Fortune | 1919-00-00 | Jules Verne | Sampson Low, Marston & Company | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | George Roux , Léon Benett | ||||
| The Begum's Fortune | 2003-08-25 | Jules Verne | Wildside Press | 1-59224-255-3 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
256 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
| The Begum's Fortune | 2014-10-13 | Jules Verne | Jazzybee | 978-3-8496-4581-6 | £0.49?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1959) in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1959 , reprinted in:
- Astounding Science Fiction, June 1959 (UK) (1959)
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1959) in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1959
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1959) in Astounding Science Fiction, December 1959 (UK)
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years (Pages 545 - 998)