
THE WORLD MASTERS
BY - GEORGE GRIFFITH - AUTHOR OF "The Angel of the Revolution," "Brothers of the Chain," "The Justice of Revenge," "A Honeymoon in Space," "Captain Johnnie," etc. etc.
In the shadowed attic of an ancient Strasbourg house, Doctor Emil Fargeau stands on the brink of a daring scientific venture. Surrounded by humming apparatuses and a flickering clock, he prepares a mysterious contraption that he believes will shatter the iron grip of the German occupiers. His obsession with the “Great Experiment” drives him to risk everything—career, home, even his own safety—for a single, decisive moment.
The tension builds as the doctor tests his invention, striking a steel plate that fractures like glass, and declares his triumph in a blend of Alsatian French and fierce patriotism. Fargeau’s vision extends beyond personal revenge; he imagines a world reshaped by French influence, where nations bow to a new order he hopes to create. Listeners are drawn into the charged atmosphere of a city under siege, feeling the pulse of science, nationalism, and the desperate hope of a man daring to rewrite history.
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (480K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2011-11-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1857–1906
A fast-moving Victorian storyteller of scientific romance, he filled his novels with airships, future wars, and journeys beyond Earth. For a few years in the 1890s, he was one of Britain’s best-known science fiction writers.
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