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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) is a novel by James De Mille. Originally serialized in Harper's Weekly, the novel was published posthumously and, at first, anonymously. Although De Mille's work predated such popular Lost World novels as... Read Full Overview

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. James De Mille's "A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder" is the fifth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Four bored men, basking away on their... Read Full Overview

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. James De Mille's "A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder" is the fifth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Four bored men, basking away on their... Read Full Overview

-Stranded in a lost world where darkness and death are reverenced. -Includes 22 Illustrations. -An early science fiction novel, reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughs' The... Read Full Overview

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) is a novel by James De Mille. Originally serialized in Harper's Weekly, the novel was published posthumously and, at first, anonymously. Although De Mille's work predated such popular Lost World novels as... Read Full Overview

Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The manuscript recounts Adam More's adventures after being lost at sea during an Antarctic... Read Full Overview

A pioneering work of lost-world fiction, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder is a thrilling blend of adventure, satire, and early science fiction. First published posthumously in 1888, James De Mille's novel follows an explorer who stumbles upon an isolated civilization... Read Full 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.

The most read James De Mille book is A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. It was serialized anonymously and posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and Harper and Brothers of New York City released it as a book in 1888. Following that, it was serialized in the UK and Australia... Read Full Overview

In this classic adventure tale, two men find a manuscript telling the story of Adam More, who sails into an underground sea and discovers a utopian society. The story is full of exotic creatures, romantic intrigue, and political allegory.

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"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" by James De Mille is a captivating tale of adventure and mystery set in the uncharted territories of the Antarctic. The narrative begins with the discovery of a copper cylinder by a group of friends aboard the yacht Falcon, owned... Read Full Overview

The satiric and fantastic romance is set in an imaginary semi-tropical land in Antarctica inhabited by prehistoric monsters and a cult of death-worshipers called the Kosekin. The main story of the novel is the narrative of the adventures of Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked... Read Full 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.

It occurred as far back as February 15, 1850. It happened on that day that the yacht Falcon lay becalmed upon the ocean between the Canaries and the Madeira Islands. This yacht Falcon was the property of Lord Featherstone, who, being weary of life in England, had taken a few... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview