The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis
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| The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis | |
 Cover from the Ballantine paperback edition of 1972. |
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| Author | C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Hutchison |
| Publication date | 1900 |
| Published in English |
1900 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | NA |
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements of the myth first told by Plato with the earlier Greek myth concerning the survival of a universal flood and restoration of the human race by Deucalion.
The novel was first published in serial form in Pearson's Magazine in the issues for July-December 1899, and in hardcover by Hutchison (London) and Harpers (New York) in 1900. There have been a number of editions since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the forty-second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February, 1972. Subsequent editions were issued by Oswald Train in 1974 and Bison Books in 2002. The Ballantine edition includes an introduction by Lin Carter, and the Bison edition one by Harry Turtledove. The novel was also reprinted (somewhat abridged) in the magazine Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Dec. 1944), and the anthology Science Fiction by the Rivals of H. G. Wells by Castle Books in 1979.
[edit] Plot summary
The novel uses the common nineteenth-century device of a "framing story" to set its narrative in context and augment its believability. The story proper was supposedly written by Deucalion, a warrior-priest of ancient Atlantis; the text having been inadvertently destroyed in part by one of its discoverers at the time of its finding, it is not entirely complete. Deucalion's account describes his heroic but ultimately doomed battle to save Atlantis from destruction at the ends of its avaricious and selfish queen, Phorenice.
[edit] External links
- The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, available at Project Gutenberg.
- "The Lost Continent" - a book review by George T. Dodds
