A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
James De Mille
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"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 preferable 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 Wikipedia) (9 hr 16 min)
Chapters
The Finding of the Copper Cylinder | 15:39 | Read by Bob Graff |
Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean | 17:02 | Read by Bob Graff |
A World of Fire and Desolation | 17:31 | Read by Bob Graff |
The Sight of Human Beings | 22:43 | Read by Bob Graff |
The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains | 16:22 | Read by Bob Graff |
The New World | 23:34 | Read by JimmyLogan |
Scientific Theories and Scepticism | 24:46 | Read by Eddie Winter |
The Cave-Dwellers | 17:18 | Read by Eddie Winter |
The Cavern of the Dead | 17:38 | Read by Eddie Winter |
The Sacred Hunt | 15:17 | Read by Gayland Darnell |
The Swamp Monster | 18:11 | Read by Gayland Darnell |
The Baleful Sacrifice | 13:32 | Read by Gayland Darnell |
The Awful "Mista Kosek" | 16:44 | Read by Gayland Darnell |
I Learn My Doom | 14:53 | Read by Gayland Darnell |
The Kohen is Inexorable | 16:54 | Read by Gayland Darnell |
The Kosekin | 16:41 | Read by Craig J. Whitehorne |
Belief and Unbelief | 26:46 | Read by Eddie Winter |
A Voyage Over the Pole | 19:13 | Read by Eddie Winter |
The Wonders of the "Amir" | 20:07 | Read by Eddie Winter |
The Dark Maiden Layelah | 16:45 | Read by the quiet fox |
The Flying Monster | 19:41 | Read by Eddie Winter |
Escape | 18:45 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
The Island of Fire | 19:14 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
Recapture | 23:37 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
Falling, like Icarus, into the Sea | 13:09 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
Grimm's Law Again | 16:11 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
Oxenden Preaches a Sermon | 11:20 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
In Prison | 18:04 | Read by Ralph Snelson |
The Ceremony of Separation | 17:34 | Read by Eddie Winter |
The Day of Sacrifice | 19:00 | Read by Eddie Winter |
Conclusion | 11:54 | Read by Eddie Winter |
Reviews
alex
really good book. The readers arent too bad. its changes through alot of readers though so some are better then others. will listen again though.
good story!
juju
Loved the story! Different but endearing in its own way!The voices of the readers lent well to the story.
just awesome
Sid-The Stone Age Boy
voice of the reader is so smooth. loved the novel. he put life in novel. and pronunciation can be understood by non native English speakers. sometimes content is worth listening but reader fails to put it that way. in this case I will suggest you to go through the book. . . .listen it whole