Work

The Steam House

Original title: La maison à vapeur

Jules Verne · 1880novel

Genre
- adventure
- historical fiction
Theme
- expeditions
- colonialism
Place
- south asia
Time
- 19th century
Tone
- adventurous
Audience
- adult

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Genrescience fiction
Toneinformative

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The Steam House is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader travel in nineteenth-century India. The descriptions are interspersed with historical information and social commentary.

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Placement

Voyages extraordinaires — #20
contained in Sci-Fi Ultimate Collectionomnibus
contained in Works of Jules Verne 12omnibus