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Limanora — Godfrey Sweven

Limanora

Godfrey Sweven

  • Fantasy
  • Book language: English
  • 500 pages

Limanora: The Island of Progress is a 1903 fantasy novel by Godfrey Sweven. It imagines an island society devoted to progress, inviting readers into its wonders and puzzles. A thoughtful example of classic utopian fantasy, worth listening to for its imaginative world.

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LIMANORA: THE ISLAND OF PROGRESS
12°. $1.50
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
New York and London
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LIMANORA
THE ISLAND OF PROGRESS
BY
GODFREY SWEVEN
Author of “Riallaro, The Archipelago of Exiles”
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1903
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G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
Published, June, 1903
The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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Contents

  1. LIMANORA
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. GLOSSARY
  5. ERRATA
  6. LIMANORA
  7. BOOK I The Outer or Material Civilisation
  8. CHAPTER I MY AWAKENING
  9. CHAPTER II MY EDUCATION
  10. CHAPTER III SLEEP, REST, AND FLIGHT
  11. CHAPTER IV HERMITRY
  12. CHAPTER V JOURNEY TO THE VALLEY OF MEMORIES
  13. CHAPTER VI FIALUME
  14. CHAPTER VII LEOMARIE
  15. CHAPTER VIII RIMLA
  16. CHAPTER IX OOMALEFA
  17. CHAPTER X THE FIRLA, OR ELECTRIC SENSE
  18. CHAPTER XI A CATASTROPHE
  19. CHAPTER XII OOLOREFA
  20. CHAPTER XIII THE LILARAN
  21. CHAPTER XIV CHOKTROO
  22. CHAPTER XV THE DUOMOVAMOLAN OR COSMOPHONE
  23. CHAPTER XVI THEIR HEAVEN AND THEIR HELL
  24. CHAPTER XVII MY EDUCATION CONTINUED
  25. POSTSCRIPT TO LIMANORA
  26. BOOK II The Limanorans The Inner Life of a Self-Selected People
  27. CONTENTS
  28. PREFACE
  29. GLOSSARY
  30. CHAPTER I DISCOVERIES

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