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This book is for readers who love journeys beneath the earth, secret brotherhoods and old alchemy, and who enjoy a lively argument between science and wonder.
Che cos’è questo libro
Can you be alone and yet not alone? On a stormy November night in Cincinnati, a bachelor named Llewellyn Drury bets his very soul that no one else is in his room. A soft voice answers that he has lost, and a white-haired stranger draws a long knife.
Etidorhpa, or The End of Earth, was written by John Uri Lloyd, an Ohio pharmacist and chemist. An old visitor reads Drury a manuscript about a man carried beneath Kentucky into the unknown. You get an eyeless guide, glowing mushroom forests, a boat that skims at nine hundred miles an hour, and a vision of love named Aphrodite spelled backward.
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- 1A wager on a stormy night summons a strangerFree
- 2A scholar explains the ghost away
- 3A secret letter leads a man to betray his oath
- 4A prematurely aged man cannot prove who he is
- 5A road through Kentucky ends at a cave mouth
- 6Light, mushroom forests and food made of sunshine
- 7A flying boat, a sleeping lake and a hollow earth
- 8Three cups are offered and three times refused
- 9A leap into the abyss and a sphere of perfect rest
- 10Science, religion and the word Why keep arguing
- 11A tale told in layers, with doubt built in
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A wager on a stormy night summons a stranger
A bleak November day in the Ohio Valley leaves Llewellyn Drury restless and gloomy. Near midnight he pulls a dictionary of Latin quotations from his shelf. His eye falls on a line saying a person is never less alone than when alone.
Drury argues with it out loud. Alone means alone, he insists, and he wagers everything he owns, even his soul, that nobody else is in the room. A soft, clear voice replies that he has lost. Across the room sits a tall white-haired man with a silver beard that falls nearly to his waist.
When Drury orders him out, the man lays a long knife on the table. Yet his calm drains away Drury's fear. He has a story in manuscript, and he wants Drury to hear it and publish it thirty years later. Then he leaves through a locked door, and the knife vanishes. A careless bet opens the door to a story that will change a life.
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Who’s who
- Llewellyn Drury
- A Cincinnati bachelor and collector of occult books who listens to a stranger's manuscript, challenges every claim, and must decide what to believe.
- I-Am-The-Man
- The white-haired visitor who reads his own story aloud, wants it published thirty years later, and longs for the family he lost.
- The eyeless guide
- A blue-gray, eyeless being who leads the traveler downward, teaches him lessons about the senses and the universe, and tests his courage.
- Professor Chickering
- Drury's well-read friend who explains the visitor away as a hallucination and urges him to take exercise.
- Professor Daniel Vaughn
- A shy, poor Cincinnati scholar of astronomy and chemistry who speaks with Drury about gravity, light and the ether.
- Etidorhpa
- A radiant spirit of love who appears among the drunkards and asks the traveler to give up everything for her.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 123,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 8 h 10 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 13 other languages
Questions about Etidorhpa, o la Fine della Terra
What is Etidorhpa about?
It is a novel in which a white-haired stranger reads Llewellyn Drury a manuscript about a man who betrays a secret brotherhood and is guided underground through Kentucky into a hollow earth, full of strange lights, lakes, temptations and lectures.
What does the word Etidorhpa mean?
It is Aphrodite spelled backward. In the book it is the name of a radiant spirit of love who appears to the traveler and asks him to give up everything for her.
Is Daniel Vaughn a real person?
Yes. Professor Daniel Vaughn was a real Cincinnati scholar of astronomy and chemistry who died in 1879. Drury consults him in the story, and an appendix about his life and death was added to the book.
Is Etidorhpa a true story, and when was it written?
It is a work of fiction whose narrator leaves its truth for readers to decide. The preface bears the date December 1894, and John Uri Lloyd composed the novel during the 1890s. Its scientific ideas are the author's imaginative speculation.
What is the main message of Etidorhpa?
The book argues that human knowledge is small and that mind, spirit and love matter more than dead matter. It asks readers to stay curious, test claims by experiment, and let science and faith respect each other.
Cite this edition
Lloyd, John Uri. Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/etidorhpa-or-the-end-of-earth.
Lloyd, J. U. (2026). Etidorhpa; or, the end of Earth. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/etidorhpa-or-the-end-of-earth (Original work published 1895)
Lloyd, John Uri. Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/etidorhpa-or-the-end-of-earth.
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note = {First published 1895}
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