The Master of the World

Jules Verne, author of such works as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days , is recognized as one of the masters of the golden age of science fiction. In The Master of the World , a series of catastrophes strike the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, and an intrepid investigator postulates that they might all be connected to a mysterious mad scientist who is sequestered in a compound in the Blue Ridge Mountains.