Limanora: the island of progress
By Godfrey Sweven
Cover: The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire (1836), oil on canvas by Thomas Cole (1801-1848) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1848)
Godfrey Sweven's 1903 utopian romance of a traveller who comes to an island where an advanced society has bred a new humanity. He learns its sciences, its education and its odd customs. A long, eccentric vision in the manner of Bellamy and More.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: My Awakening
- 2: My Education
- 3: Sleep, Rest, and Flight
- 4: Hermitry
- 5: Journey to the Valley of Memories
- 6: Fialume
- 7: Leomarie
- 8: Rimla
- 9: Oomalefa
- 10: The Firla, or Electric Sense
- 11: A Catastrophe
- 12: Oolorefa
- 13: The Lilaran
- 14: Choktroo
- 15: The Duomovamolan or Cosmophone
- 16: Their Heaven and Their Hell
- 17: My Education Continued
- 18: Discoveries
- 19: An Accident
- 20: Death
- 21: An Epidemic
- 22: Literature
- 23: Inspiration
- 24: Pioneering
- 25: Another Threat
- 26: Polity
- 27: The Manora and the Imanora
- 28: Ethics
- 29: A Warning
- 30: Religion
- 31: The Last Flight