Great Britain -- Defenses; Imaginary wars and battles
In this Romance of Love, War, and Revolution, the action takes place ten
years hence, and turns upon the solution of the problem of aerial
navigation, which enables a vast Secret Society to decide the issue of
the coming world-war, for which the great nations of the earth are now
preparing. Battles such as have hitherto only been vaguely dreamed of
are fought on land and sea and in the air. Aerial navies engage armies
and fleets and fortresses, and fight with each other in an unsparing
warfare, which has for its prize the empire of the world. Unlike all
other essays in prophetic fiction, it deals with the events of
to-morrow, and with characters familiar in the eyes of living men. It
marks an entirely new departure in fiction, and opens up possibilities
which may become stupendous and appalling realities before the present
generation of men has passed away.
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_A FEW PRESS OPINIONS._
"Since the days of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, we know
of no writer who 'takes the cake' like Mr. George
Griffith."--_Daily Chronicle._
"A really exciting and sensational romance."--_Literary World._
"As a work of imagination it takes high rank."--_Belfast News
Letter._
"Full of absorbing interest."--_Barrow Herald._
"This powerful story."--_Liverpool Mercury._
"An entirely new departure in fiction."--_Reynolds' Newspaper._
"Of exceptional brilliancy and power."--_Western Figaro._
"This remarkable story."--_Weekly Times and Echo._
"There is a fascination about his book that few will be able to
resist."--_Birmingham Gazette._
"This exciting romance."--_Licensing World._
"A work of strong imaginative power."--_Dundee Courier._
"We must congratulate the author upon the vividness and reality
with which he draws his unprecedented pictures."--_Bristol
Mercury._
"Is quite enthralling."--_Glasgow Herald._
"A striking and fascinating novel."--_Hampshire Telegraph._
Demy 8vo, handsomely bound in cloth, price 6s.
_With Frontispiece by Edwin S. Hope._
OLGA ROMANOFF;
Or, The Syren of the Skies.
BY GEORGE GRIFFITH,
AUTHOR OF "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION," "THE OUTLAWS OF THE AIR."
* * * * *
Dedicated to Mr. HIRAM S. MAXIM.
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A sequel to the author's striking and successful romance. _The Angel of
the Revolution_, describing the efforts of a beautiful daughter of the
House of Romanoff to restore the throne of her ancestors destroyed in
the World-War of 1904, and presenting to the reader the spectacle of a
world transformed into a wonderland of art and science, yet trembling on
the brink of a catastrophe, in comparison with which even the tremendous
climax of _The Angel_ sinks almost into insignificance.
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SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
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