THE ISLAND OF FANTASY: A ROMANCE
Published by Griffith Farran & Co. Limited [1892], London, 1892
- First Edition
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First Impression. Three octavo volumes (19.25cm); blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spines and in black on front covers; publisher's decorated endpapers; [2],3-288; [4],5-301,[1]; [4],5-299,[1] blank, plus [4]pp ads. Black and white armorial bookplate of J.M. Sagar-Musgrave applied to front pastedown of each volume. Some offsetting from bookplates onto endpapers; scattered foxing to text edges and preliminary pages, else clean internally; touch of sunning to spine cloth and board extremities, mild wear to spine ends, with light dust-soil to covers; hinges sound, with spine gilt still bright and unrubbed; Very Good+. An early and uncommon novel from Hume's prolific career a Greek Arcadian utopia founded by a wealthy Englishman on an isolated island in the Mediterranean. Set on the fictional island of Melnos, in the Cretan Sea, the Englishman, who expatriated himself from his native land 40 years prior to the beginning of the narrative, has through natural selection raised "a small colony of almost perfect men and women. Of these none was more beautiful than his own daughter Helena.To this colony, at the invitation of its sovereign, goes out Maurice Boylands, a wealthy young Englishman who has lost all zest and relish for life until he encounters Helena. Then all his susceptible nature awakes within him in passionate force. Life becomes entirely transformed, and for the first time he realises the joy of existence" (The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art, July 30, 1892). Conflict ensues when Boylands's scorned rival, Count Caliphronas, resolves to punish Helena and the island's inhabitants by waging war upon them. The island is ultimately destroyed by a volcanic eruption, with the principal characters being among the few survivors. Uncommon; OCLC shows 11 holdings in US institutions. Bleiler (1948 ed.), p.155; Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1, p.119.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE ISLAND OF FANTASY: A ROMANCE
- Author
- Hume, Fergus (pseud. of Fergusson Wright Hume)
- Publisher
- Griffith Farran & Co. Limited [1892], London
- Publication year
- 1892
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- Science Fiction & Fantasy
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