Jules Verne 4 hr 17 min read

The mysterious inventor Robur descends on a society of balloon enthusiasts in his astonishing heavier-than-air flying machine, the Albatross, to prove the future belongs to him.

This Finnish edition presents Jules Verne's 1886 'Robur the Conqueror,' a prophetic tale of aviation and a brilliant, arrogant genius. Exciting, forward-looking, classic Verne. Read it for a thrilling scientific romance that foresaw powered flight, starring one of Verne's most memorable inventors, in Finnish.

In its time

Published in 1886, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

4 hr 17 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).