The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China
| Title | The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China |
| Year for Search | 1921 |
| Authors | Frankau, Gilbert(1884-1952) |
| Date Published | 1921 |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract. |
| Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Rpt. as a volume of The Definitive Edition of Gilbert Frankau's Novels and Short Stories. London: Macdonald, [1945]. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-K, PSt |
| Author Note | (1884-1952) |
| Full Text | 1921 Frankau, Gilbert (1884-1952). The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China. Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed, and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract. |
