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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lord Lytton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368174096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author: Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551115158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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“As I drew near and nearer to the light, the chasm became wider, and at last I saw, to my unspeakable amaze, a broad level road at the bottom of the abyss, illumined as far as the eye could reach by what seemed artificial gas lamps placed at regular intervals, as in the thoroughfare of a great city; and I heard confusedly at a distance a hum as of human voices.…” Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race was one of the most remarkable and most influential books published in the 1870s. The protagonist, a wealthy American wanderer, accompanies an engineer into the recesses of a mine, and discovers the vast caverns of a well-lit, civilized land in which dwell the Vril-ya. Placid vegetarians and mystics, the Vril-ya are privy to the powerful force of Vril—a mysterious source of energy that may be used to illuminate, or to destroy. The Vril-ya have built a world without fame and without envy, without poverty and without many of the other extremes that characterize human society. The women are taller and grander than the men, and control everything related to the reproduction of the race. There is little need to work—and much of what does need to be done is for a novel reason consigned to children. As the Vril-ya have evolved a society of calm and of contentment, so they have evolved physically. But as it turns out, they are destined one day to emerge from the earth and to destroy human civilization. Bulwer-Lytton’s novel is fascinating for the ideas it expresses about evolution, about gender, and about the ambitions of human society. But it is also an extraordinarily entertaining science fiction novel. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, one of the great figures of late Victorian literature, may have been overvalued in his time—but his extraordinarily engaging and readable work is certainly greatly undervalued today. As Brian Aldiss notes in his introduction to this new edition, this utopian science fiction novel first published in 1871 still retains tremendous interest.
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 317
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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An engineer encounters a strange sight while exploring a mine, and reluctantly reports it to the narrator. The two descend into the mine together, but an accident causes the narrator to fall through a crevice and into a secret subterranean world. The inhabitants seem to be an offshoot of an ancient human race who have been living and evolving underground. They have command over a fluid called vril, which gives them both great destructive and great creative and healing powers. Because of their ability to destroy so easily, their society has developed into a very peaceful, utopian one. They don’t eat or kill animals, and only take life that is a threat to their community. These people call themselves the Vril-ya, and consider themselves to have a superior form of government that has developed over many ages. While our narrator considers his native United States a great society that all should be proud of, the Vril-ya dismiss it as Koom-Posh (their word for “democracy”), which in their view is government by the ignorant, and destined to collapse into chaos. The above-ground world, with its achievements based on rivalry and conflict, is in contrast to the world of the Vril-ya, where personal achievement and honors are not pursued. The narrator spends some time exploring this society, but thinks about how, if ever, he will return home. But before he can return, he unwittingly becomes the object of romantic interest—putting his life in peril. The Coming Race was published anonymously in 1871, and is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher: Adam, Stevenson
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Category : Civilization, Subterranean
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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