A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James DeMille: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 31 original MP3 tracks, 9:16:05 running time and a link to listen.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, credited to James DeMille, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, by James DeMille. "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" is the most popular of James De Mille's works. It was serialized posthumously in Harper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers of New York City in 1888. This satiric romance is the story of Adam More, a British sailor. Shipwrecked in Antarctica, he stumbles upon a tropical lost world of prehistoric animals, plants, and a cult of death-worshipping primitives. He also finds a highly developed human society which has reversed the values of Victorian society. Wealth is scorned and poverty revered; death and darkness are preferrable to life and light. Rather than accumulating wealth, the natives seek to divest themselves of it as quickly as possible. At the beginning of each year, the government imposes wealth (the burden of "reverse taxation") upon its unfortunate subjects as a form of punishment. A secondary plot about the four yachtsmen who find the manuscript forms a frame for the central narrative. [Summary condensed from wikipedia]
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
- Author credits: James DeMille
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 31
- Listed recording duration: 9:16:05
Catalogue topics
- audio book
- fiction
- adventure
- satire
- utopia
- Antarctica
Opening tracks: first 24 of 31
- 01 - The Finding of the Copper Cylinder — 15:40
- 02 - Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean — 17:02
- 03 - A World of Fire and Desolation — 17:31
- 04 - The Sight of Human Beings — 22:43
- 05 - The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains — 16:22
- 06 - The New World — 23:35
- 07 - Scientific Theories and Scepticism — 24:47
- 08 - The Cave Dwellers — 17:19
- 09 - The Cavern of the Dead — 17:39
- 10 - The Sacred Hunt — 15:18
- 11 - The Swamp Monster — 18:12
- 12 - The Baleful Sacrifice — 13:33
- 13 - The Awful 'Mista Kosek' — 16:45
- 14 - I Learn My Doom — 14:54
- 15 - The Kohen Is Inexorable — 16:55
- 16 - The Kosekin — 16:41
- 17 - Belief and Unbelief — 26:46
- 18 - A Voyage Over the Pole — 19:14
- 19 - The Wonders of the Amir — 20:08
- 20 - The Dark Maiden Layelah — 16:46
- 21 - The Flying Monster — 19:42
- 22 - Escape — 18:45
- 23 - The Island of Fire — 19:15
- 24 - Recapture — 23:38
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