L' Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste, comte de 1838-1889 creator text utu 2008 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "L'Ève future" by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam is a symbolist science fiction novel published in 1880. When Lord Ewald confides to his friend Thomas Edison that he's contemplating suicide over his beautiful but empty-souled fiancée, Edison proposes an extraordinary solution: he will construct a perfect android replica named Hadaly. As Edison reveals the mechanical details of his creation and duplicates Alicia's physical form, questions emerge about artifice, perfection, and what makes a woman truly alive—leading to an unexpected supernatural twist. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_Eve Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%88ve_future Release date is 2008-09-21 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) Original publication data not identified Science fiction Inventors -- Fiction Androids -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26681 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26681 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133617.0 26681