The Pagan City
First edition, 1938
The Pagan City (1938) by W. N. Chaplin is a lost race novel set in a subterranean Roman city discovered beneath the Sahara, where a civilization has survived intact since antiquity. Chaplin uses the premise to construct a dystopia centered on the institution of slavery and, as the Science Fiction Encyclopedia notes, to offer "a satirical portrait of the kind of contemporary European delusionary thinking that might find Fascism or Nazism still palatable." Published by John Long in 1938, the novel appeared at a moment when such parallels carried obvious urgency. An uncommon title.
Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth. London: John Long, 1938. #11162.
Very good in good dust jacket with small piece missing on rear panel and tape reinforcement all along the edges of the verso side. Rare with any dust jacket at all.
Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth. London: John Long, 1938. #11162.
Very good in good dust jacket with small piece missing on rear panel and tape reinforcement all along the edges of the verso side. Rare with any dust jacket at all.