Will N. Harben 2 hr 54 min read

Two young balloonists, insensible as their car sinks toward the clouds, are carried to a hidden inner realm lit by an artificial, ever-changing sun, a wondrous and perilous lost world.

Will N. Harben's 1894 novel is an imaginative lost-world and utopian romance. Inventive, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for a striking Victorian voyage into a secret subterranean kingdom, where a mechanical sun rules a strange civilization, and marvels and dangers await the accidental explorers.

In its time

Published in 1894, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 54 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).