George W. Bell 3 hr 46 min read

A traveler is guided through a hidden, ideally governed society, its happiness and prosperity held up as proof of benign rule, a utopia dedicated to enlightened New Zealand.

George W. Bell's 1904 novel is a utopian lost-world romance extolling progressive governance. Earnest, idealistic, of its era. Read it for a turn-of-the-century vision of the perfectly ordered commonwealth, framed as a guided tour of an enlightened hidden world.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

3 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).