Jules Verne 2 hr 48 min read

Strange happenings at the Great Eyrie, a machine that travels by land, sea, and air, and letters signed by a genius who obeys no law, Inspector Strock is on the trail of the Master of the World.

Jules Verne's 1904 novel, a sequel to 'Robur the Conqueror,' is a gripping scientific-adventure thriller. Vivid, prophetic, exciting. Read it for late Verne at his most ominous, the return of the mad inventor Robur, now the megalomaniac master of a marvelous all-terrain machine, and the lawman who pursues him.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 48 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).