Name: The Coming Race: or, Vril, the Power of the Coming Race
SKU: 56591608
Price: 448.00 ZAR
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
ISBN: 9781545560235

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The Coming Race: or, Vril, the Power of the Coming Race

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

230

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781545560235

Synopsis "The Coming Race: or, Vril, the Power of the Coming Race"

Full text.The Coming Race (also known as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race)is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. G. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret.Quote: Our public libraries contain all the books of the past which time has preserved; those books, for the reasons above stated, are infinitely better than any can write nowadays, and they are open to all to read without cost. We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton (London, 1803 – Torquay, 1873) was a prolific novelist, playwright, and British politician, prominent in the Victorian period. He cultivated various literary genres, including historical novels, Gothic romance, and science fiction. Among his most recognized works is The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), a historical novel set in the ancient Roman city before its destruction by the eruption of Vesuvius. Other notable works include Zanoni (1842), The Haunted and the Haunters (1859), and The Coming Race (1871), also known as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race.

Bulwer-Lytton is remembered for coining famous phrases such as "The pen is mightier than the sword" and for the famous opening "It was a dark and stormy night" in his novel Paul Clifford (1830). His influence endures in literature and popular culture, and his legacy has been the subject of study and revaluation in contemporary literary criticism.

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