The Lord of the Sea: Beyond World's Classics

Bys: Press, Beyond Words, Lodge, Richard, Shiel, Matthew Phipps

The story is of Richard Hogarth, a man of lofty spirit who on discovering a cache of giant diamonds inside a fallen meteor undertakes a bold project to re-shape the human condition on a global scale. He builds huge steel forts with his wealth, places diamonds at the cross-roads of the earth's oceans to control all sea-traffic for tribute to benefit the citizens of his mammoth iron islands. "The Lord of the Sea (1901) develops a network of mid-19th-century motifs - incredible coincidences, swapped babies, hidden identities, chance-found incredible wealth, documents in a trunk, festering revenges, elaborate prison escapes, frustrated romance, Napoleonic megalomania - yet, though written to an aesthetic outdated for its time, in embodies that aesthetic with enormous elan and vitality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HQ92X8Z
• ISBN13: 9798682225422
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"