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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World

by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674

BookID: 51783

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 37.1 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Science fictionUtopias -- FictionVoyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800

Description

"The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World" by Margaret Cavendish is a work of prose fiction published in 1666. A young woman is kidnapped and swept to the North Pole, where she discovers a portal to a parallel world inhabited by human-animal hybrids. Mistaken for a goddess, she becomes empress of this strange realm, imposing new religions and philosophies. When war threatens her homeland, she returns with fantastical technologies to restore order, blurring the lines between conquest, creation, and utopian imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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