Edmund Gosse 2 hr 3 min read

Cast down from Olympus, the gods of ancient Greece find themselves marooned on a quiet Lutheran island in twentieth-century Northern Europe, grumbling and adjusting to modern life.

Edmund Gosse's 1901 'ironic fantasy' wryly imagines the classical deities exiled into the modern age. Elegant, witty, urbane. Read it for a sophisticated comic fantasy that strands the immortals in a world that no longer believes in them.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 3 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).