Jules Verne 4 hr 47 min read

Three of Verne's shorter tales, including the town where a mad doctor's gas turns placid burghers into raving hotheads.

This Verne collection gathers 'Doctor Ox's Experiment', a sly comedy in which oxygen secretly pumped into a sleepy Flemish town whips its citizens into frenzy, alongside the title Arctic survival story and more. Verne in a wittier, more mischievous register than his great voyages. Read it for the lighter, cleverer side of the master, with one of his most delicious satirical premises.

In its time

Published in 1874, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

4 hr 47 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).