@booklet {7531, title = {Coralia; A Plaint of Futurity}, year = {1876}, month = {1876}, publisher = {Samuel Tinsley}, address = {London}, abstract = {

While the novel focuses on an unhappy immortal who attempts to find solace in life, Coralia is called \"the land of happiness\" (11), and, while it is beneath the sea, it is a sort of heaven. \"Here life was not as what we know it, but a serene existence without insignificant and unworthy objects such as those of earth\" (49). The novel ends with the unhappy immortal united with God.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905)} } @booklet {9297, title = {In Front of the World. A Novel}, volume = {3 Vols.}, year = {1876}, month = {1876}, publisher = {Charing Cross Publishing Co. }, address = {London}, abstract = {

A messianic figure attempts to bring about human unity, writes a new Bible, and creates a new religion through a group with telepathy.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905)} } @booklet {7523, title = {Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under the Ice}, year = {1875}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering \& Chatto, 2009), 1: 3-64. Editor\&$\#$39;s notes 1, 349.

}, month = {1875}, publisher = {Bickers and Son}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia called the Universal Community of Free Brethren located inside a glacier in Switzerland. While the institutions of the society are presented positively, there is a general sense that the people are too unemotional. Pyrna means \"The Beautiful Home\". Emphasis on the educational system. Gender equality. Highly refined. The people \"looked upon eating as a disagreeable necessity. . .\" (125/Claeys 57).

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905)} }