Clovis Dardentor
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Clovis Dardentor
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AI Voice Charles Owen
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice Charles Owen
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Written by:
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Jules Verne
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
The narrative follows Jean Taconnat and Marcel Lornans, two young men seeking military commissions in Algeria, when they encounter Clovis Dardentor, a wealthy, childless businessman whose fortune presents an irresistible opportunity. Their scheme possesses a certain comic elegance: engineer a crisis, effect a heroic rescue, and trust that gratitude will transform into adoption or patronage. But Verne understands that the distance between intention and execution is where comedy lives, and he orchestrates their increasingly desperate improvisations with evident delight.
The Mediterranean crossing becomes a compressed social laboratory where French bourgeois pretensions collide with economic realities. Verne, himself a product of provincial ambition who made good in Paris, writes with the authority of someone who understood both the comedy and pathos of social climbing.
This edition preserves the novel's considerable wit while rendering it accessible to contemporary readers. For those who know Verne only through his famous adventures, Clovis Dardentor reveals an unexpected versatility—proof that his imagination could work just as effectively in miniature as in the vast scales that made his reputation.
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