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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

by James De Mille

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9 h 16 min · 31 parts

  1. The Finding of the Copper Cylinder

    15:39

  2. Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean

    17:02

  3. A World of Fire and Desolation

    17:31

  4. The Sight of Human Beings

    22:43

  5. The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains

    16:22

  6. The New World

    23:34

  7. Scientific Theories and Scepticism

    24:46

  8. The Cave-Dwellers

    17:18

  9. The Cavern of the Dead

    17:38

  10. The Sacred Hunt

    15:17

  11. The Swamp Monster

    18:11

  12. The Baleful Sacrifice

    13:32

  13. The Awful "Mista Kosek"

    16:44

  14. I Learn My Doom

    14:53

  15. The Kohen is Inexorable

    16:54

  16. The Kosekin

    16:41

  17. Belief and Unbelief

    26:46

  18. A Voyage Over the Pole

    19:13

  19. The Wonders of the "Amir"

    20:07

  20. The Dark Maiden Layelah

    16:45

  21. The Flying Monster

    19:41

  22. Escape

    18:45

  23. The Island of Fire

    19:14

  24. Recapture

    23:37

  25. Falling, like Icarus, into the Sea

    13:09

  26. Grimm's Law Again

    16:11

  27. Oxenden Preaches a Sermon

    11:20

  28. In Prison

    18:04

  29. The Ceremony of Separation

    17:34

  30. The Day of Sacrifice

    19:00

  31. Conclusion

    11:54

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Adam More, a British sailor swept past the Antarctic ice, washes into a warm volcanic land where prehistoric beasts still roam and a people called the Kosekin rule. Their society flips every Victorian assumption: poverty is honored, wealth is a burden to give away, darkness is prized over light, and death is the highest reward a person can seek. James De Mille frames the story as a manuscript found floating in a copper cylinder, read aloud by yachtsmen who bicker over whether any of it is true. The result is part lost-world adventure, part sharp satire of greed, empire, and the values his readers took for granted. Published in 1888, after the author's death, it stands as a landmark of early Canadian speculative fiction.

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James De Mille (1833-1880) was a Canadian novelist and professor of classics and history at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Prolific and popular in his day, he wrote adventure serials, boys' fiction, and satire, though he is best remembered for this fantasy, published only after he died.

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First published
1888
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
211
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook