THE SECRET OF WILHELM STORITZ
by Jules Verne

Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press

Pub Date:  2010

Format:   Trade Paperback

Brief Description
The original novel that Jules Verne left upon his death, to be published for the first time in the English language.  Set in Europe in the 1800s, a spurned scientist concocts a potion to make his would-be lover invisible, and thus win her back for himself.  But it might be too late to turn back what's already set in motion.
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Full Description
         The novel takes place in the south of Hungary where there lives the son of a famous Prussian scientist, Wilhelm Storitz. Wilhelm is a chemist, too, and has a passion for a beautiful Hungarian woman, Myra Roderich. But Myra’s family refuses him Myra’s hand in marriage, raising the question about Hungarian nationalism, instilling bitter behaviour in the young man. Simultaneously, Myra is wooed by a French man named Marc.
         Unbeknownst to Myra’s family, though, is that Wilhelm has inherited his father’s great scientific discovery: invisibility. Wilhelm swears to avenge himself and to bring discredit on the Roderich’s family. To instigate his revenge, Wilhelm uses the discovery to make Myra invisible.
         Myra is distraught. She cannot see herself in a mirror. Still, Marc loves her and marries her.
         At the same time an inquiry is open to find Hermann, the Storitz’s servant, since people think he knows the secret of how to become visible again. But when he’s discovered it is, unfortunately, too late. Wilhelm dies during a brawl with the policeman in charge of the inquiry, taking to the grave the secret of invisibility.
         Myra will remain invisible.

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