Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der Makler des Pharaos
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who enjoy early science fiction in the spirit of Jules Verne, lively debates between a dreamer and a dealmaker, tales of strange worlds, and comic and sharp pictures of money, markets and power.
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Pharaoh's Broker is an adventure novel by Ellsworth Douglass, an American writer who died in 1933. It was published in the 1890s, in the age of the first great grain corners and the first dreams of travel between planets. The story is told by Isidor Werner, a Chicago wheat trader, who sets down what happens when he agrees to fund a strange professor's invention.
The book joins two kinds of tale. One is a voyage story, full of careful, playful science about gravity, air, light and weight. The other is a satire of the market, set on a world where the old story of Joseph and the seven years of plenty seems to play out again. You get a trip through space, a meeting with a strange people, and a trader who cannot stop trading.
The tale opens in a Chicago office on a day of triumph for Werner. A gray-bearded visitor has waited for hours to see him, and what he has to sell is a way to fall upward. That is where the first key point begins.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A trader meets a professor with a dreamFree
- 2Gravity can be made to push as well as pull
- 3A cigar-shaped craft and a hopeful guess
- 4Launch, the Pole and a fear of light
- 5Weight fades and the dead line nears
- 6Mars, its moons and its red light
- 7A war fought with reeds and a mute woman
- 8A young Hebrew ruler and a land like Egypt
- 9Famine, rival plots and the price of wheat
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A trader meets a professor with a dream
The story begins on the day after February 29. Isidor Werner has just made more than two hundred thousand dollars by betting against the wheat firm of Slater, Bawker and Company. He is hurrying to lunch when his chief clerk, Flynn, tells him that a peculiar old man has been waiting in his private office since eleven o'clock.
The visitor is Doctor Hermann Anderwelt, who once taught Werner physics at Heidelberg and kept him back for an extra year. He has given up theory for applied science. He wants ten thousand dollars to build a gravity projectile, a craft that does not fly but falls, in any direction he chooses.
Werner is a man who makes ten thousand dollar deals in seconds. He doubts the idea until he looks the old teacher in the eye and sees a steady, serious gaze. He sends for lunch and German beer for two, and then he decides to listen with real care.
The bargain that follows shows both men. The doctor wants fame, and the projectile must carry his name. Werner wants control. He opens by asking for ninety five percent of the shares and ends with ninety percent, and the doctor signs away almost everything for the sake of the journey. Mars will be closest to Earth on the third of August, so the machine must be ready by early June, and all of it must stay secret.
That’s 1 of 9 key points.
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Questions about Der Makler des Pharaos
What is Pharaoh's Broker about?
A Chicago wheat trader joins a German professor on a trip to Mars in a gravity powered craft. There they find a kingdom like ancient Egypt, ruled by a young Hebrew, where the trader tries to corner the grain.
Who is Zaphnath in Pharaoh's Broker?
Zaphnath is the young Hebrew ruler of the Martian land of Kem. His name matches the Egyptian name given to Joseph in the Bible, and he governs in the Pharaoh's name.
What is the Theory of Parallel Planetary Life?
The doctor's idea is that every habitable world passes through the same history at its own speed. On this view, Mars is at an early stage that matches ancient Egypt on Earth.
How does the gravity projectile work?
The doctor reverses the polarity of the craft's steel frame so that Earth repels it. The craft then falls upward, and near another planet he switches the current so the new world pulls it in.
Is Pharaoh's Broker easy to read?
It has a lively first person voice, plenty of humor, and short scenes full of action. Clear explanations of the science and quick arguments between the two travelers keep the story moving.