UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks

Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices

Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!

Robur the Conqueror

Jules Verne

How does All You Can Books work?

All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.

Book Excerpt: 
. . .But they had no time; and neither even had he time to answer.

A whistle was heard. A flash of electric light shot across the clearing.

A signal, doubtless? The moment had come for the deed of violence. In less time that it takes to tell, six men came leaping across from under the trees, two onto Uncle Prudent, two onto Phil Evans, two onto Frycollin—there was no need for the last two, for the Negro was incapable of defending himself. The president and secretary of the Weldon Institute, although taken by surprise, would have resisted.

They had neither time nor strength to do so. In a second they were rendered speechless by a gag, blind by a bandage, thrown down, pinioned and carried bodily off across the clearing. What could they think except that they had fallen into the hands of people who intended to rob them? The people did nothing of the sort, however. They did not even touch Uncle Prudent's pockets, although, according t. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Αντί κριτικής κρατάω ένα κομμάτι από την 12η σελίδα που μου έκανε εντύπωση.

"Οι επιστήμονες συνέχισαν να διαφωνούν ίσως και για να εκφοβίσουν τους αφελείς και τους ανίδεους, οι οποίοι χάρη σε έναν από τους σοφότερους νόμους της φύσης έχουν αποτελέσει, αποτελούν και θα αποτελούν την πλειοψηφία των κα

ROBUR THE CONQUEROR was published by Jules Verne in 1886, one of his "Voyages Extraordinaire." The novel focuses on lighter-than-air vs. heavier-than-air flight. The title character, Robur, has developed a heavier-than-air ship that he contends is the future of flight (this was almost 20 years befor

The story in this book scratched a reading itch I had.

Se me parece demasiado a 20000 leguas de viaje submarino ,pero Robur no llega a la altura del capitán Nemo o se queda medias tintas de ser un gran villano según los estándares actuales.

Fatih Robur'la aslında kazara Dünyanın Hakimi'ni okurken tanıştım. 1904 yılında basılan Dünyanın Hakimi, 1886'da yazılan karakterimiz Robur'u içeriyordu. O yüzden bu sefer de 18 yıl geriye gidip Fatih Robur'la tanışmaya karar verdim.

Evet, (eğer olsaydı) biraz bul ve değiştirden Nautilus'ları Albatro

[With apologies to Monty Python]

John Cleese: Albatross! Albatross!! Albatross!!!

Customer: Have you got any character development or memorable dialogue?

Cleese: Of course I haven't got any bloody character development or memorable dialogue, this is a bloody Jules Verne novel! But I have got an Albat

Robur the Conqueror, also known as The Clipper of the Clouds is a science fiction from Jules Verne written in 1886 along the similar lines of his masterpiece Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. While ‘Twenty thousand leagues under the sea’ with its enigmatic Captain Nemo and his underwater exploi

This certainly is not Jules Verne's best book. Take a group of characters involved in ballooning (called aerostats in the book) and a strange Captain Nemo look-alike called Robur who has a heavier than air ship called the Albatross, which is an "aeronef," very like a sort of an elaborate helicopter.

View More Reviews