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Pirate FictionClockwork & AutomataVictorian Science Fiction

Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)

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  • 1897 first published
  • 176 pages
  • 60 editions
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Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau) is an 1897 pirate adventure and clockwork fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story is set in France, in the 19th century. Key subjects include inventors, weapons of mass destruction, Patriotism and Abduction.

It has been published in 60 editions across 3 languages.

At about 176 pages, most readers finish it in 3–4 hours.

About Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)

In another science-based entry in his Voyages Extraordinaires series, Verne takes us on the journey of Simon Hart, an engineer who poses as a medical attendant to the scientist Thomas Roch. Roch’s invention of a world-conquering weapon has driven him insane. As the paranoid doctor rests in a sanatorium, the vicious pirate Ker Karraje kidnaps both Roch and Hart. Karraje takes them to a secret hideaway in a burned-out island caldera in the Bermudas—but Hart hatches an ingenious escape plan.
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“The carte de visite received that day, June 15, 189-, by the director of the establishment of Healthful House was a very neat one, and simply bore, without escutcheon or coronet, the name: Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was written in lead pencil: "On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, Pamlico Sound."”

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Classic Literature
  • Thriller
  • Inventors
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Patriotism
  • Abduction
  • Avarice
  • Loyalty
  • Mentally ill
  • Revenge
  • Pirates
  • Science fiction
  • Science Fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)?

Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau) was written by Jules Verne and first published in 1897.

What genre is Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)?

It is usually shelved as Pirate Fiction, Clockwork & Automata and Victorian Science Fiction.

How long is Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)?

The median edition has 176 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Ante la bandera (Face au drapeau)?

Readers who like it often enjoy Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, II, The Time Machine and "And That's How It Was, Officer".

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