Frank R. Stockton 3 hr 19 min read

In a marvelous near-future of undersea craft and wondrous rays, the inventor Roland Clewe pursues two grand quests: a submarine voyage to the Pole, and a shaft bored toward the Earth's core.

Frank R. Stockton's 1898 novel is an imaginative, prophetic scientific-adventure romance. Inventive, genial, ahead of its era. Read it for a delightful Victorian vision of future technology, polar exploration by submarine and a dig to the planet's heart, from the witty author of 'The Lady, or the Tiger?'

In its time

Published in 1898, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 19 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).