Frona Eunice Wait ~8 hr read

In an antediluvian America, the noble Yermah the Dorado leads a lost civilization of Atlantean colonists, a vanished race whose splendor and downfall unfold in a romance of the deep past.

Frona Eunice Wait's 1897 novel is an atmospheric lost-race fantasy-romance. Vivid, imaginative, of its era. Read it for a richly imagined tale of a lost Atlantean civilization in prehistoric California, steeped in theosophical and mystical lore, a striking early contribution to the lost-race genre from a San Francisco woman writer of the fin de siècle.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).