Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 3 hr 11 min read

Deep beneath the Earth, an explorer discovers the Vril-ya, a serene, super-powerful subterranean race whose mastery of a mysterious energy makes them the coming rulers of the world.

This French edition presents Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 'The Coming Race,' a hugely influential utopian and lost-world novel. Prophetic, philosophical, foundational. Read it for the classic that gave the world 'vril,' a chilling vision of a superior race waiting beneath our feet, in French.

In its time

Published in 1871, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

3 hr 11 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).