The Master of the World

The Master of the World  (1904)  by Jules Verne

The Master of the World was published in 1904, one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. — Excerpted from Master of the World on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This etext has been provided by Project Gutenberg. This etext was taken from the Parke (1911) fifteen volume edition of The Works of Jules Verne. This abridged text also contains some surplus material not in the original French edition. A more faithful translation by Cranstoun Metcalfe was published by Sampson Low (London) in 1914.

Contents

• Chapter 1: What Happened in the Mountains
• Chapter 2: I Reach Morganton
• Chapter 3: The Great Eyrie
• Chapter 4: A Meeting of the Automobile Club
• Chapter 5: Along the Shores of New England
• Chapter 6: The First Letter
• Chapter 7: A Third Machine
• Chapter 8: At Any Cost
• Chapter 9: The Second Letter
• Chapter 10: Outside the Law
• Chapter 11: The Campaign
• Chapter 12: Black Rock Creek
• Chapter 13: On Board the Terror
• Chapter 14: Niagara
• Chapter 15: The Eagle's Nest
• Chapter 16: Robur, the Conqueror
• Chapter 17: In the Name of the Law
• Chapter 18: The Old Housekeeper's Last Comment