Jules Verne ~5 hr read

When a golden meteor is spotted hurtling toward Earth, rival astronomers, and a whole covetous world, scramble to claim the fortune in gold about to fall from the sky.

Jules Verne's posthumous 1908 'The Chase of the Golden Meteor' is a wry, satirical scientific romance of greed and the heavens. Charming, ironic, inventive. Read it for a late Verne tale that turns a falling treasure into a comedy of human avarice, in French.

In its time

Published in 1908, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

George Roux