"The Lord of the Sea (1901), almost as fine [as The Purple Cloud], is strongly based on Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It develops a network of mid-19th-century motifs -- incredible coincidences, swapped babies, hidden identities, chance-found incredible wealth, documents in a trunk, festering revenges, elaborate prison escapes, frustrated romance, Napoleonic megalomania -- yet, though written to an aesthetic outdated for its time, in embodies that aesthetic with enormous elan and vitality." -- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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By Roberto de Sousa Causo (Sao Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This novel is mentioned in Dashiell Hammett's story "The Gutting of Couffignal," in Hammett's postumous collection _The Big Knockover_ (1962). The master of detective fiction has one anonymous detective of the Continental Op. Agency reading the book for a long of night of guarding wedding presents in the island of Couffignal. "The book was called _The Lord of the Sea_," Hammett wrote, "and had to do with a stong, tough and violent fellow named Hogarth, whose modest plan was to hold the world in one hand. There were plots and counterplots, kidnapings, murders, prisonbreakings, forgeries and burglaries, diamonds large as hats and floating forts larger than Couffignal. It sounds dizzy here, but in the book it was as real as a dime." To call this scientific romance "as real as a dime" sounds flattering enough for me.
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Lord King, Lord of the Sea, Lordship's Majesty, Land Bill, Market Street, Adair Street, Richard Hogarth, Baruch Frank, Rachel Oppenheimer, Admiral Donald, Fred Bates, Lord Regent, Prime Minister, Moses Max, Beech's Folly, Foreign Office, Prince of Wales, Tom Bates, Cheyne Gardens, John Loveday, Margaret Hogarth, Rebekah Frank, San Francisco, Act of Parliament, Chief Rabbi New!
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Lord King, Lord of the Sea, Lordship's Majesty, Land Bill, Market Street, Adair Street, Richard Hogarth, Baruch Frank, Rachel Oppenheimer, Admiral Donald, Fred Bates, Lord Regent, Prime Minister, Moses Max, Beech's Folly, Foreign Office, Prince of Wales, Tom Bates, Cheyne Gardens, John Loveday, Margaret Hogarth, Rebekah Frank, San Francisco, Act of Parliament, Chief Rabbi New!
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