A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

By James De Mille

Book Overview

With its curious mixture of adventure, natural history and satire this early Canadian novel has become a landmark work of fantasy and science fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773521674
• ISBN13: 9780773521674
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Canada's Orwell

If you like Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World and other "creepy society" books, you'll love this one. Four intellectuals find a..., well, a strange manuscript, in a... copper cylinder, yeah. It is the account of a man's discovery of a literally "backwards" civilization where the social pyramid is inverted : people strive to be poor, and the wealthiest citizens are considered bums. Life here is torture, because the ultimate goal of every person is to die. Pick up this book to be intrigued and fascinated.

Magnificent

I actually picked up this book on accident - I had no idea what it was about nor had I ever heard of it. A wonderful masterpiece on society and cultutre, it includes much symbolism. The book makes us question what is truth -