The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. Copyright Ed PDF Download

Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Pages : 812

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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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Pages : 306

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Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"The classic book has always read again and again.""What is the classic book?""""Why is the classic book?""READ READ READ.. then you'll know it's excellence."

Author: Frank Crane
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Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Pages : 168

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The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton Unabridged 1871 Original Version

Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Pages : 254

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Pages : 580

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Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Author: Edward Bulwer
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ISBN: 9781499656534
Category : Fiction
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Pages : 124

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The Coming Race - Vril, the Power of the Coming Race by Edward Bulwer. Vril, the Power of the Coming Race is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally printed as The Coming Race. Among its readers have been those who have believed that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril" is accurate, to the extent that some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as being (at least in part) based on occult truth. A popular book, The Morning of the Magicians (1960) suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in pre-Nazi Berlin. However, there is no historical evidence for the existence of such a society. The Coming Race was originally published anonymously in late 1871 but Bulwer-Lytton was known to be the author. Samuel Butler's Erewhon was also published anonymously, in March 1872, and Butler suspected that its initial success was due to it being taken by many as a sequel by Bulwer-Lytton to The Coming Race. When it was revealed in the 25 May 1872 edition of the Athenaeum that Butler was the author, sales dropped by 90 percent because he was unknown at the time. The novel centres on a young, independently wealthy traveller (the narrator), who accidentally finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels and call themselves Vril-ya. The hero soon discovers that the Vril-ya are descendants of an antediluvian civilisation who live in networks of subterranean caverns linked by tunnels. It is a technologically supported Utopia, chief among their tools being the "all-permeating fluid" called "Vril", a latent source of energy which its spiritually elevated hosts are able to master through training of their will, to a degree which depends upon their hereditary constitution, giving them access to an extraordinary force that can be controlled at will. The powers of the will include the ability to heal, change, and destroy beings and things; the destructive powers in particular are awesomely powerful, allowing a few young Vril-ya children to wipe out entire cities if necessary. It is also suggested that the Vril-ya are fully telepathic. The narrator states that in time, the Vril-ya will run out of habitable spaces underground and start claiming the surface of the Earth, destroying mankind in the process if necessary.