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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

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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

Bewertungen

(4 Sterne)

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!

(5 Sterne)

Loved the story! Different but endearing in its own way!The voices of the readers lent well to the story.

just awesome

(5 Sterne)

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