Resumen
Resumen de La raza futura
Para quién es
For readers who love early science fiction, Victorian satire and imagined societies, and enjoy exploring ideas about peace, progress and freedom.
De qué trata este libro
The Coming Race is a short novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, first published without his name in 1871 and later known as his work. Bulwer-Lytton was a politician and a popular novelist of the Victorian age. Here he writes a tale of travel to an underground world, in the manner of a traveller's report.
The story is told by an unnamed young American who explores a passage below a mine and finds a hidden civilisation far below the surface. Its people are taller, stronger and longer lived than humans, and they command a mysterious energy called vril. You get an adventure, a satire of Victorian life, and a thought experiment about what a perfect society might cost. Let us begin with how the narrator first goes down.
En este resumen
- 1A mine shaft opens onto another worldFree
- 2A lit land below the earth
- 3Vril, the force that runs everything
- 4A peaceful society with no struggle
- 5Strange customs, women and the question of love
- 6Learning the language and the limits of the guest
- 7What the story says about progress
- 8How the tale is told
Idea clave 1 de 8
A mine shaft opens onto another world
The narrator is a young traveller from the United States. He tells us he is writing for readers after his own time, and he keeps his name and some details hidden. He visits a great mine, guided by a friendly engineer who is an old acquaintance.
The engineer has found a chasm that leads far below the working galleries. Curious, the two men climb down by rope to explore it. The engineer goes first, and the narrator follows in a spirit of adventure.
Something goes wrong in the depths. The engineer does not return as expected, and the narrator is left alone in a strange place that is not like any mine he knows.
This opening matters because it sets the tone. Bulwer-Lytton uses the plain voice of a travel writer to make a wild tale feel like a report. The reader is asked to accept the impossible because the narrator sounds so calm about it.
That’s 1 of 8 key points.
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Who’s who
- The narrator
- A curious young American traveller becomes a guest among underground people whose powers far exceed those of his own society.
- The engineer
- A mining engineer and friend of the narrator guides him into the chasm where their strange adventure begins.
- The first underground host
- A tall, calm inhabitant of the underground world receives the narrator and introduces him to its unfamiliar society.
- The young woman of the house
- The daughter of the narrator's host teaches him her people's customs and takes a growing personal interest in him.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 53,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 3 h 35 min
- Listening time5 h 55 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 13 other languages