The Forgotten Civilizations: 20 Lost World Novels
Twenty Classic Tales of Hidden Cities, Hollow Earths, Lost Races, and Scientific RomanceBy Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, James De Mille, H. P. Lovecraft, Abraham Merritt, Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Scott-Elliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Swift, J. Allan Dunn, Charles John Cutcliffe, Samuel Butler, David Franklin Powell, Will N. Harben, Carlton Dawe
Length160h 5m
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The Forgotten Civilizations: 20 Lost World Novels surveys the durable literary fascination with concealed continents, vanished empires, subterranean realms, and survivals of remote antiquity. Ranging from satirical voyage and Gothic speculation to scientific romance, imperial adventure, proto–science fiction, and supernatural horror, the volume traces how "lost worlds" became laboratories for imagining evolution, race, technology, empire, and cultural memory. Its striking episodes of inaccessible cities, prehistoric survivals, and unsettling encounters reveal both the imaginative abundance and ideological tensions of the tradition. Bringing together Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Butler, and other influential popular writers, the anthology places canonical innovators beside less frequently recovered practitioners. These voices span Enlightenment satire, Victorian romance, fin-de-siècle imperial fantasy, and twentieth-century pulp adventure, demonstrating how the lost-world mode adapted to changing scientific theories, colonial anxieties, and desires for unexplored space. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this collection offers an exceptional opportunity to compare narrative experiments across a major transnational genre. Its breadth invites readers to examine adventure's pleasures alongside its cultural assumptions, while the conversation among its varied texts illuminates the enduring power of imagined forgotten civilizations.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length160 hrs 5 mins
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Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Vintage Mysteries - 70+ Stories in One Volume (Thriller Classics Collection) (Annotated)
2A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
3CHAPTER I — THE FINDING OF THE COPPER CYLINDER
4CHAPTER IV — THE SIGHT OF HUMAN BEINGS
5CHAPTER VII — SCIENTIFIC THEORIES AND SCEPTICISM
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6CHAPTER X — THE SACRED HUNT
7CHAPTER XIV — I LEARN MY DOOM
8CHAPTER XVII — BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
9CHAPTER XX — THE DARK MAIDEN LAYELAH
10CHAPTER XXIII — THE ISLAND OF FIRE
11CHAPTER XXVI — GRIMM'S LAW AGAIN
12CHAPTER XXX — THE DAY OF SACRIFICE
13At the Mountains of Madness
14CHAPTER I
15CHAPTER II
16CHAPTER III
17CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER V
19CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER VIII
22CHAPTER IX
23CHAPTER X
24CHAPTER XI
25CHAPTER CHAPTER XII
26The Moon Pool (pt. 1)
27The Moon Pool (pt. 2)
28The Moon Pool (pt. 3)
29The Moon Pool (pt. 4)
30The Moon Pool (pt. 5)
31The Land That Time Forgot
32Chapter 1
33Chapter 4
34Chapter 7
35King Solomon's Mines
36INTRODUCTION
37CHAPTER IV
38CHAPTER VII
39CHAPTER X
40CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XVI
42CHAPTER XIX
43She
44INTRODUCTION
45I MY VISITOR
46II THE YEARS ROLL BY
47III THE SHERD OF AMENARTAS
48IV THE SQUALL
49V THE HEAD OF THE ETHIOPIAN
50VI AN EARLY CHRISTIAN CEREMONY
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Das Karpathenschloß (Kommentiert)Jules Verne9h 4m$1 · $0.00
Reisestipendien (Kommentiert)Jules Verne15h 34m$1 · $0.00
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Ein Drama in Livland (Kommentiert)Jules Verne10h 25m$1 · $0.00
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Adrift in Pacific and Other Adventure Tales – 17 Books in One Volume (Illustrated) (Annotated)Jules Verne139h 33m$2 · $0.00
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The Greatest Children's Classics – Jules Verne Edition: 16 Exciting Tales of Courage, Mystery & Adventure (Illustrated) (Annotated)Jules Verne170h 59m$2 · $0.00
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Hell to PayMichael Anderle7h 50m$20
A Civil CampaignLois McMaster Bujold18h 49m$32
Warrior’s FateWalt Browning10h 37m$20
The RisenErica Stevens10h 17m$20
100 Years to ExtinctionPeter Solomon14h 48m$27
Amazing Tales Volume 1Max Williams et al.4h 5m$2.30
H. G. Wells: Collected Works (Annotated)H. G. Wells427h 28m$2 · $0.00
Scars of RebellionAnthony J. Melchiorri12h 56m$25
The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinBecky Chambers9h 56m$29 · $0.00
AvengerBlair Howard9h 54m$23
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