Facing the Flag
Jules Verne pushes his fascination with machines into darker territory here. Thomas Roch, a French chemist driven half-mad by years of rejection, has invented the Fulgurator, a weapon that can obliterate a warship from a great distance. When no government will meet his price, the pirate Ker Karraje abducts him to a hidden island stronghold and pressures him to build it. Simon Hart, an engineer who poses as Roch’s keeper, becomes the reader’s eyes as he schemes to stop the launch before a fleet is destroyed. The whole story turns on one moral question: whether even a broken man will fire on his own country’s flag. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.
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Facing the Flag (1897) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01 - Healthful House | 26:26 | |
| 2 | 02 - Count D'Artigas | 22:23 | |
| 3 | 03 - Kidnapped | 20:13 | |
| 4 | 04 - The Schooner Ebba | 26:03 | |
| 5 | 05 - Where Am I? (Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer) | 26:46 | |
| 6 | 06 - On Deck | 20:59 | |
| 7 | 07 - Two Days at Sea | 24:13 | |
| 8 | 08 - Back Cup | 23:20 | |
| 9 | 09 - Inside Back Cup | 24:07 | |
| 10 | 10 - Ker Karraje | 26:01 | |
| 11 | 11 - Five Weeks in Back Cup | 18:34 | |
| 12 | 12 - Engineer Serko’s Advice | 20:32 | |
| 13 | 13 - God Be with It | 12:40 | |
| 14 | 14 - Battle Between the “Sword” and the Tug | 21:32 | |
| 15 | 15 - Expectation | 19:06 | |
| 16 | 16 - Only a few more Hours | 15:40 | |
| 17 | 17 - One against Five | 16:16 | |
| 18 | 18 - On Board the “Tonnant” | 6:04 |
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