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The Coming Race

The Coming Race

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 6 hours and 55 minutes

Language: English

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." .

The Coming Race drew heavily on his interest in the occult and contributed to the birth of the science fiction genre. Unquestionably, its story of a subterranean race of men waiting to reclaim the surface is one of the first science fiction novels. The novel centres on a young, independently wealthy traveler (the narrator), who accidentally finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels, who call themselves Vril-ya. The hero soon discovers that they are descendants of an antediluvian civilisation who live in networks of subterranean caverns linked by tunnels. The narrator suggests that in time, the Vril-ya will run out of habitable spaces underground and will start claiming the surface of the earth, destroying mankind in the process, if necessary. (Summary compiled from Wikipedia)

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Chapters 01-02 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 03-04 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 05-06 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 07-08 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 09 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 10-11 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 12 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 13-14 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 15 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 16 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 17 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 18 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 19-20 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 21 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 22 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 23- 24 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 25-Part 1 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 25-Part 2 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 26 (Maire Rhode)
Chapters 27-28 (Maire Rhode)
Chapter 29 (Maire Rhode)
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