Jules Verne

Miguel Strogoff: (Low Cost). Edicion Limitada Jules Verne

Publisher Marketing: Sacando provecho de la amnistia que el zar le habia concedido, Ivan Ogareff, militar retirado y exiliado, instiga una invasion de Siberia por los tartaros. Impulsado por su deseo de venganza, Ogareff convence al emir de Bujara y a otros khanes del Turquestan libre de llevar a cabo tamana empresa. No obstante, todo su odio recae sobre el hermano del zar, el Gran Duque, acantonado en Irkutsk, la capital de Siberia Oriental. El Gran Duque no le conoce personalmente, aunque ha sido la autoridad que lo ha mandado al exilio. Los tartaros cortan los cables telegraficos mas alla de los Urales para impedir la comunicacion entre el zar y su hermano. Sin embargo, los hombres del zar han descubierto el plan de Ivan Ogareff de entrar en Irkutsk con un nombre falso para ganarse la confianza del Gran Duque y, luego, cuando lo juzgara oportuno, acabar con su vida y entregar la ciudad a los tartaros. Se requieren los servicios de un expedito correo que recorra las 5 200 verstas que separan Moscu de Irkutsk, que suponen un vasto territorio plagado de amenazas. Para esta ardua hazana, el oficial Kissof no duda en postular a Miguel Strogoff, un valiente joven siberiano, oficial de correos del zar." Contributor Bio:  Verne, Jules Jules Gabriel Verne (French: 8 February 1828 - 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, Verne was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare, and probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the authors sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction," as are H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.