Doctor Ox
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Doctor Ox is a short-story collection by Jules Verne
first published in 1874 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel
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It consists of four varied works of Verne's youth:
and a non-fiction story written by Jules Verne's brother Paul:
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
first published in 1874 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Pierre-Jules Hetzel was a French editor and publisher. He is best known for his extraordinarily lavishly illustrated editions of Jules Verne's novels highly prized by collectors today...
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It consists of four varied works of Verne's youth:
- "Une fantaisie du docteur Ox" ("Dr. Ox's ExperimentDr. Ox's Experiment"Dr. Ox's Experiment" is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy...
"), - "Maître Zacharius ou l'horloger qui avait perdu son âme" ("Master Zacharius"),
- "Un hivernage dans les glaces" ("A Winter amid the Ice"),
- "Un drame dans les airs" ("A Drama in the AirA Drama in the Air"A Drama in the Air" is an adventure short story by Jules Verne.The story was first published in August 1851 under the title "Science for families. A Voyage in a Balloon" in Musée des familles with five illustrations by Alexandre de Bar...
"),
and a non-fiction story written by Jules Verne's brother Paul:
- "Quarantième ascension du Mont-Blanc" ("Fortieth Ascent of Mont Blanc").