A floating city

a floating city is a Romance of Jules Verne published in 1871.

The floating city, it is the Great Eastern , an enormous ship making the crossing Liverpool-New York, on board of which several thousands of people are, with their different characters. A true company. The main character of the account is the narrator.

Topics approached in the novel

the gigantism of the Great Eastern and of its infrastructures (the massive use of the vapor to actuate the machinery of this immense steamer of luxury)
the madness (incarnated by the character of Hodges Dash)

List characters

Captain Anderson
Mr. Alfred Cohen
Mrs. Alpine Cohen
Cokburn
Captain Archibald Corsican
Jules D…
Harry Drake
Cyrus Field
Baron Gauldrée Boilleau
Dash Hodges
Mac
Captain Fabian Mac Elwyn
Mac Karthy
Captain Mac pH…
Mrs. Mac pH…
O' Kelly
Doctor Dean Pitferge
Mrs. R…
John Pink
W…
Mr. Whitney
Mrs. Whitney
Wilmore
Wilson

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