EPISODE · Jan 1, 2016 · 9H 17M
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | James de Mille
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Author: James de Mille Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Fantasy Publisher's Summary: "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 preferrable 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Strange_Manuscript_Found_in_a_Copper_Cylinder ]
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/257016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Author: James de Mille Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Fantasy Publisher's Summary: "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 preferrable 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Strange_Manuscript_Found_in_a_Copper_Cylinder ]
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