AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Secret of Wilhelm StoritzAfterwordNotes
Jules Verne (1828–1905) is the author of many classics of science fiction and adventure, including The Meteor Hunt, Lighthouse at the End of the World, and The Golden Volcano, all available in Bison Books editions. Peter Schulman is a professor of French literature at Old Dominion University. He is a trustee of the North American Jules Verne Society and editor of Verne’s The Begum’s Millions.
""Staying lavishly true to the original text, Schulman provides notes on colloquialisms and does not shy away from Verne's anti-German sentiment. No Verne collection will be complete without this volume, which includes the original haunting ending.""—Publishers Weekly|""Verne is a master of the eerie; the craggy landscape, the streets of Budapest and Ragzi, the cowering townsfolk are vivid displays of the skills of a writer in his later years, when landscape is imbued with more meaning than passion. . . . The experience of reading The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is more like watching the original Dracula than any book you've ever read.""—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times|“The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is one of Jules Verne’s most surprising stories and is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The novel investigates one of the most compelling themes in science fiction, invisibility. This translation is faithful, literal, and expert, a model of the translator’s art.”—Brian Taves, editor of The Jules Verne Encyclopedia and Jules Verne’s Adventures of the Rat Family|“The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is a startling novelty in Verne’s output: not sci-fi but a spooky urban fantasy—a sinister, devious fable with an unprecedented ending that grows more and more astonishing the longer you think about it. Though the novel’s early pages are deceptively relaxed, it soon accelerates into an intense, high-speed thriller.”—Frederick Paul Walter, Verne translator and former vice president of the North American Jules Verne Society
""Staying lavishly true to the original text, Schulman provides notes on colloquialisms and does not shy away from Verne's anti-German sentiment. No Verne collection will be complete without this volume, which includes the original haunting ending.""-Publishers Weekly|""Verne is a master of the eerie; the craggy landscape, the streets of Budapest and Ragzi, the cowering townsfolk are vivid displays of the skills of a writer in his later years, when landscape is imbued with more meaning than passion. . . . The experience of reading The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is more like watching the original Dracula than any book you've ever read.""-Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times|"The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is one of Jules Verne's most surprising stories and is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The novel investigates one of the most compelling themes in science fiction, invisibility. This translation is faithful, literal, and expert, a model of the translator's art."-Brian Taves, editor of The Jules Verne Encyclopedia and Jules Verne's Adventures of the Rat Family|"The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz is a startling novelty in Verne's output: not sci-fi but a spooky urban fantasy-a sinister, devious fable with an unprecedented ending that grows more and more astonishing the longer you think about it. Though the novel's early pages are deceptively relaxed, it soon accelerates into an intense, high-speed thriller."-Frederick Paul Walter, Verne translator and former vice president of the North American Jules Verne Society
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