The Angel of the Revolution (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Dystopian Sci-Fi NovelBy George Griffith
Length16h
About this audiobook
The Angel of the Revolution (1893) is a seminal "future-war" romance that fuses imperial adventure, technological speculation, and revolutionary melodrama. Set amid global conflict, it follows the Brotherhood of Freedom and their airship fleet as they challenge the militarized powers of Europe. Griffith's prose is rapid, panoramic, and sensational, yet it belongs decisively to the fin-de-siècle context of invasion literature, anarchist anxiety, and early scientific romance, anticipating later science fiction's fascination with aerial warfare and geopolitical catastrophe. George Griffith, born George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, was a journalist and prolific popular novelist whose work was shaped by late Victorian debates over empire, socialism, machinery, and the fragility of European peace. His journalistic eye for topical fears and spectacular events helped him transform contemporary political tensions into vivid speculative narrative. Writing before H. G. Wells became the dominant name in British scientific romance, Griffith gave technological fantasy an explicitly martial and international scale. This book is recommended to readers interested in the origins of science fiction, political fantasy, and the literature of modern warfare. Though marked by Victorian assumptions, it remains compelling as a bold document of its age: imaginative, urgent, and historically revealing.
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Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length16 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Angelot – A Tale of the First Empire (Annotated)
26Chapter 25. The Heralds of Disaster.
2Chapter 1. At the Eleventh Hour.
27Chapter 26. An Interlude.
3Chapter 2. At War with Society.
28Chapter 27. On the Track of Treason.
4Chapter 3. A Friendly Chat.
29Chapter 28. A Skirmish in the Clouds.
5Chapter 4. The House on Clapham Common.
30Chapter 29. An Embassy from the Sky.
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6Chapter 5. The Inner Circle.
31Chapter 30. At Close Quarters.
7Chapter 6. New Friends.
32Chapter 31. A Russian Raid.
8Chapter 7. The Daughter of Natas.
33Chapter 32. The End of the Chase.
9Chapter 8. Learning the Part.
34Chapter 33. The Breaking of the Charm.
10Chapter 9. The Beginning of Sorrows.
35Chapter 34. The Path of Conquest.
11Chapter 10. The “Ariel.”
36Chapter 35. From Chaos to Arcadie.
12Chapter 11. First Blood.
37Chapter 36. Love and Duty.
13Chapter 12. In the Master’s Name.
38Chapter 37. The Capture of a Continent.
14Chapter 13. For Life or Death.
39Chapter 38. The Beginning of the End.
15Chapter 14. The Psychological Moment.
40Chapter 39. The Battle of Dover.
16Chapter 15. A Voyage of Discovery.
41Chapter 40. Beleaguered London.
17Chapter 16. A Wooing in Mid Air.
42Chapter 41. An Envoy of Deliverance.
18Chapter 17. Aeria Felix.
43Chapter 42. The Eve of Armageddon.
19Chapter 18. A Navy of the Future.
44Chapter 43. The Old Lion at Bay.
20Chapter 19. The Eve of Battle.
45Chapter 44. The Turn of the Battle-Tide.
21Chapter 20. Between Two Lives.
46Chapter 45. Armageddon.
22Chapter 21. Just in Time.
47Chapter 46. Victory.
23Chapter 22. Armed Neutrality.
48Chapter 47. The Judgment of Natas.
24Chapter 23. A Battle in the Night.
49Chapter 48. The Ordering of Europe.
25Chapter 24. The New Warfare.
50Chapter 49. The Story of the Master.
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