Mask of the Prophet, The long-term investment The Handbook surveys a number

The Handbook surveys a number of the most important developments in the philosophy of the period

when and why

Their salience has increased for a variety of reasons including the increasing access to information among ordinary people

and to the world of the arts and aesthetic activity more generally

Mask of the Prophet, The long-term investment The Handbook surveys a numberSuch novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days have made Jules Verne the most widely translated of all French authors. But he has typically been categorized as the father of science fiction or a writer of harmless fantasies for children. Now, in this brilliantly original new book, Andrew Martin relocates Verne squarely at the centre of the literary map. Dr Martin shows that a recurrent narrative (exemplified