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Crystal age, a

A Crystal Age is one of the earliest science-fiction novels which deals with a utopia of the distant future. The first-person narrator, a traveler and naturalist, wakes to find himself buried in earth and vegetation. He comes across a community of people who live in a mansion together, under a foreign set of rules and cultural assumptions. He falls desperately in love with a girl from the community, but the very basis of their utopia forbids his ever consummating his desires.

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  • "Soft Editions Ltd. legal deposit copies"@en

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  • "A young man awakens to find that the world has changed dramatically while he's been unconscious. He falls in love with a young woman, but despairs of ever marrying her because of the social structure of his newfound utopian community. The hopelessness that follows asks the question, is there life without reciprocal love?"
  • "A Crystal Age is one of the earliest science-fiction novels which deals with a utopia of the distant future. The first-person narrator, a traveler and naturalist, wakes to find himself buried in earth and vegetation. He comes across a community of people who live in a mansion together, under a foreign set of rules and cultural assumptions. He falls desperately in love with a girl from the community, but the very basis of their utopia forbids his ever consummating his desires."@en
  • "An explorer falls down a cliff and wakes up in a very different time and place."
  • "W. H. Hudson’s trailblazing story of a pastoral utopia that harbors a dark secret After a landslide, Smith awakens groggy and confused. The landscape around him has changed dramatically. He wanders through the countryside, searching for any semblance of civilization, until a family takes him in. As he recounts what happened to him and where he came from, it dawns on Smith that he has somehow left his own world behind and awoken somewhere entirely new. What Smith finds is a gorgeous utopian vision of a peaceful world made real. Humans live in accordance with nature, respectful of the land and animals, untethered by technology. The cause of this new order is an alternate hierarchy of humanity that Smith must learn to adhere to—or face the consequences. As he integrates into this foreign society, Smith finds himself falling for the daughter of the house. But when he tries to tell her, he realizes the most important difference between his former world and his new one: Romantic love no longer exists. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Utopian fiction"@en
  • "Utopian fiction"

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  • "L'era di cristallo (1887)"
  • "La edad de cristal (1887)"@es
  • "La edad de cristal (1887)"
  • "La edad de cristal (1887). Hudson"@es
  • "La Era de cristal"
  • "Crystal age, a"@en
  • "A crystal age. [2nd ed.]"@en
  • "L'era di cristallo : 1887"@it
  • "A crystal age"@en
  • "A crystal age"
  • "La era de cristal"
  • "La era de cristal"@es
  • "Crystal age"@en
  • "Crystal age"
  • "Crystal Age"
  • "Crystal Age"@en
  • "A Crystal Age. [By W.H. Hudson.]"@en
  • "The crystal age"
  • "A Crystal Age"
  • "A Crystal Age"@en

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