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Date: 1896

Portada de Quo vadis de Henryk Sienkiewicz

Adventures Adventures Quo vadis

Henryk Sienkiewicz

1896

The action takes place mainly in Rome, a city with a population characterized by a wide variety of nationalities and social classes. The main action takes place during the last six years of the administration of the Emperor Nero (63-66 d. C.) while the action of the epilogo, for its part, takes place around the year 68 d. C. The events that allow us to delimit the time of action are the arrival of Ventro in Rome after the establishment of peace with Armenia (year 63 d. C.), the fire of Rome (year 64 d. C.), the death of Petronio (year 66 d. C.) and the death of Nero (year 68 d. C.).

Portada de Before the flag de Jules Verne

Adventures Adventures Before the flag

Jules Verne

1896

In front of the flag is a novel that narrates the perispecies of a scientist who creates a very powerful weapon: the Roch burglar, in a clear reference to the atomic bomb. This novel is a clear exponent of Verne's mentality regarding weapons, Germany's growing power and militarism and the role that science can play as a monster creator in the figure of a crazy scientist who has an invention capable of the greatest benefits or of the greatest misfortunes. This work, along with "The 500 million of the Begun," is considered to be the anticipation of weapons of mass destruction, especially the atomic bomb.