M. G. Conrad ~5 hr read

An expedition ventures into a realm of purple darkness, discovering a hidden world of strange peoples and dangers.

M. G. Conrad's 1895 German novel ('In Purple Darkness') is an early lost-world adventure of exploration into the unknown. Atmospheric, imaginative period SF. Read it for a Victorian-era German romance of discovery, plunging its explorers into a mysterious hidden realm.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).