Jules Verne 4 hr 54 min read

When the eccentric Doctor Ox pipes his mysterious gas through the streets of a placid Flemish town, its phlegmatic citizens are suddenly seized by wild passions and frenzy.

Jules Verne's 1874 'Doctor Ox' is a witty satirical novella of a scientific experiment on a whole sleepy town, collected here with other tales. Funny, sharp, inventive. Read it for a delightful comic Verne, in which oxygen turns a dull town gloriously, ridiculously mad, in French.

In its time

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

Reading it

4 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).