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A Stange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

novel by De Mille

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In Canadian literature: From settlement to 1900
…De Mille’s satiric travel fantasy A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) and Roberts’s renowned quasi-documentary animal stories (Earth’s Enigmas, 1896; The Kindred of the Wild, 1902) represented different and original fictional forms.
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In James De Mille
…imagination ranged furthest in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), a fantasy travel narrative that satirizes Western notions of progress through an account of the imaginary society of the Kosekin in Antarctica.
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