The World Masters

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The World Masters

by George Chetwynd Griffith

EN·~8 hours·2 chapters

Chapters

2 total
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THE WORLD MASTERS

0:11
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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.

8:19:49

Description

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.

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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.

About the author

George Chetwynd Griffith

George Chetwynd Griffith

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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