Un court roman sympathique qui se lit très bien ! L'intrigue est prenante quoiqu'assez classique (à l'image des personnages clichés), agréable à lire si on aime bien Leblanc et la littérature d'aventure de cette époque. Intéressant pour ses quelques éléments d'anticipation.

Interesting to think about.

commentaire social: est la raison pour laquelle vous devriez lire ce livre. soyez conscient des préjugés et des normes de genre masculins et féminins qui sont exprimés dans ce livre. faites attention à la façon dont le sujet de la race est traité.

This was a blast, an awesome SF adventure brought to us from 1920. As such - alas - we get some dated, now-purged terms for the Native Americans in the story; Washington’s NFL team recently dropped such a term from their name, and The First Doctor on Doctor Who, in the very first episode, used a sim

"It'll be fine," I told myself. I mean, what could go wrong? I was always fascinated behind the controversy behind the creation of a tunnel across the English Channel, one that literally spanned an entire century. So I thought this would be an interesting scifi tale from an author who lived when the

Le Formidable Événement might be my benchmark of a "good bad book": stuffed with clichés like a good, full pillow, with unforgettable characters who have the psychological depth of a rainpond, full of plot twists with no suspense at all... A great way to pass an afternoon, and to remember that readi

Sort of like Tintin. Old, entertaining, and racially insensitive