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A review by blueyorkie
Uma Cidade Flutuante by Jules Verne
3.0
A Floating City
One of the Extraordinary Voyages which is among the least known, a floating city is a short but fascinating novel. Jules Verne, through his narrator, takes us on board the Great Eastern for a trip from Liverpool to New York. Onboard, we find a concentrate of the society of the time, and we live all the possible intrigues in this behind-the-scenes sometimes a little disturbing, so many legends about it abound drownings, disappearances, workers walled in machinery. ..More than a simple hymn to progress, this novel is a photograph of the society of the end of the XIXth Century, and the intrigues which take place in the sides of this "floating city" are full of interest.
The Blockade Runners
It's been a long time since I had read Jules Verne, so these little novels allowed fixing that. That said, it may not be the most appropriate format: the characters are not the strongest point of this author, and they do not have the time to develop at all on a path. As short as that who leads this English vessel to break the blockade of the American Civil War to bring back cotton. It's pretty cool, yes, but it just lacks pages to train the reader like Verne knows how to do in other works. For lovers of maritime conflicts, therefore, rather.
One of the Extraordinary Voyages which is among the least known, a floating city is a short but fascinating novel. Jules Verne, through his narrator, takes us on board the Great Eastern for a trip from Liverpool to New York. Onboard, we find a concentrate of the society of the time, and we live all the possible intrigues in this behind-the-scenes sometimes a little disturbing, so many legends about it abound drownings, disappearances, workers walled in machinery. ..More than a simple hymn to progress, this novel is a photograph of the society of the end of the XIXth Century, and the intrigues which take place in the sides of this "floating city" are full of interest.
The Blockade Runners
It's been a long time since I had read Jules Verne, so these little novels allowed fixing that. That said, it may not be the most appropriate format: the characters are not the strongest point of this author, and they do not have the time to develop at all on a path. As short as that who leads this English vessel to break the blockade of the American Civil War to bring back cotton. It's pretty cool, yes, but it just lacks pages to train the reader like Verne knows how to do in other works. For lovers of maritime conflicts, therefore, rather.