Limanora: the island of progress
Credits: Godfrey Sweven (author)
Summary
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.
Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.
Chapters (31)
- 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