Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Fantasy Fiction

Authors: James De Mille In Year : 1888

Book Language: English

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The Finding of the Copper Cylinder
Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean
A World of Fire and Desolation
The Sight of Human Beings
The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains
The New World
Scientific Theories and Scepticism
The Cave-Dwellers
The Cavern of the Dead
The Sacred Hunt
The Swamp Monster
The Baleful Sacrifice
The Awful "Mista Kosek"
I Learn My Doom
The Kohen is Inexorable
The Kosekin
Belief and Unbelief
A Voyage Over the Pole
The Wonders of the "Amir"
The Dark Maiden Layelah
The Flying Monster
Escape
The Island of Fire
Recapture
Falling, like Icarus, into the Sea
Grimm's Law Again
Oxenden Preaches a Sermon
In Prison
The Ceremony of Separation
The Day of Sacrifice
Conclusion

"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888. This satiric romance is the story of Adam More, a British sailor. Shipwrecked in Antarctica, he stumbles upon a tropical lost world of prehistoric animals, plants, and a cult of death-worshipping primitives. He also finds a highly developed human society which has reversed the values of Victorian society. Wealth is scorned and poverty revered; death and darkness are preferable to life and light. Rather than accumulating wealth, the natives seek to divest themselves of it as quickly as possible. At the beginning of each year, the government imposes wealth (the burden of "reverse taxation") upon its unfortunate subjects as a form of punishment. A secondary plot about the four yachtsmen who find the manuscript forms a frame for the central narrative. (Condensed from Wikipedia)