The Steam House
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| The Steam House | |
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Maison à vapeur |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Scribner's & Sons |
| Publication date | 1880 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
| OCLC | 2653988 |
The Steam House (French: La maison à vapeur) is a Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house tracted by a steam-powered mechanical elephant.
Jules Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader travel in ninetheenth Century India. The descriptions are interspersed with historical information and social commentary, which makes obvious the educational goal of the novel.
[edit] Alternate titles
- Demon of Cawnpore (Part 1 of 2)
- Demon of the Cawnpore (Part 1 of 2)
- Steam House (Part I) The Demon of Cawnpore
- Steam House (Part II) Tigers and Traitors
- Tigers and Traitors (Part 2 of 2)
- Tigers and Traitors, Steam House (Part 2 of 2)
- The End of Nana Sahib
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