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Paris in the 20th Century

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Paris in the 20th Century (Paris au XXème siècle) is a novelle screiven bi Jules Verne in 1860 aboot a youthie man that bides in a time o gless skyscrapers, hie-speed trains, gas-pouered motors, calculators, an a warldwide communications netwark, yit canna find happiness, an comes tae a tragic end. Hetzel thocht the novelle's pessimism wad skaithe Verne's boomin career, an suggestit he wait 20 year afore pittin it furth. Verne pit the manuscript in a sauf, whaur it wis diskivered bi his great-graundson in 1989. At lang an lenth it wis setten furth in 1994.

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