Edith Allonby 4 hr 48 min read

An ambitious allegory and satire, permeated with the spirit of adventure and the marvelous, following its characters into strange and impossible realms.

Edith Allonby's 1905 novel is an imaginative utopian and fantasy romance, praised in its day as artful and provocative. Ornate, visionary period fiction. Read it for an earnest Edwardian allegory that mixes adventure with satire and the impossible, from a tragically short-lived author.

In its time

Published in 1905, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 48 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).