A Drama in Livonia

A Drama in Livonia

infobox Book |
name = A Drama in Livonia
title_orig = Un drame en Livonie
translator = I. O. Evans


image_caption =
author = Jules Verne
illustrator = Léon Benett
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = Voyages Extraordinaires #52
genre = Adventure novel
publisher = Pierre-Jules Hetzel
release_date = 1904
english_release_date = 1967
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages =
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Traveling Scholarships
followed_by = Master of the World

"A Drama in Livonia" ( _fr. Un drame en Livonie) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1893 [the book was written during the Dreyfus affair, hence the similarity of the stories] , revised in 1903 and first published in 1904.

Plot outline

In Livonia, a bank employee who was carrying the money was assassinated. The prime suspect is Professor Dimitri Nicolef. He was the only person present, besides the innkeeper German Kroff. The fiancée of Ilka, professor's daughter, a lawyer Wladimir Yanof is a political prisoner who had escaped from Siberia to prove the innocence of his future father-in-law.

Publication history

*1967, UK, London: Arco. 192 pp., First UK edition

See Also

External links

* [http://jv.gilead.org.il/zydorczak/liv00.html Un drame en Livonie] available at [http://jv.gilead.org.il/ Jules Verne Collection] fr

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