"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder"
| Title | "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" |
| Year for Search | 1888 |
| Authors | [De Mille], [James](1833-80) |
| Secondary Title | Harpers Weekly |
| Volume / Edition | 32.1620 - 1638 |
| Pagination | See Full Text |
| Date Published | January 7 - May 12, 1888 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Male author |
| Annotation | Lost race dystopia of reversal with satirical elements. The people seek death and separate from those they love. Poverty is preferred to wealth and has higher status, and those who anonymously give away money are punished when caught. Those who govern are despised. Stress on serving others rather than advancing oneself, The protagonist's name is Adam More. |
| Additional Publishers | Repub. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Serial version rpt. ed. Daniel Burgoyne. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2011 with extensive appendices. Repub. New York: Arno Press, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Another ed. New York: Harper & Brothers/London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910. The first ed. under the author’s name was the 3rd impression New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Rpt without the illus. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1969 with an “Introduction” by R.E. Watters (vii-xviii); ed. Malcolm Parks. [Ottawa, ON]: Carleton University Press, 1986 with the illus.; and Toronto, ON: Bakka Books Stone Fox Publishing, 2001. Extracts published as “The Kosekin.” The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1973), 99-105. Canadian Broadcasting Co. Audio Adaptation by Crawford Killian, 1972. |
| Info Notes | Often erroneously described as “the first Canadian utopia.” Appears to have been originally written in the 1860s. |
| Illustration | Illus. Gilbert [William] Gaul (1855 -1919). |
| Holding Institutions | Can, CtY, Merril |
| Author Note | The Canadian author (1833-80) was born James De Mill, but changed the spelling. |
| Full Text | 1888 [De Mille, James] (1833-80). “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.” Illus. Gilbert [William] Gaul (1855-1919). Harpers Weekly 32.1620 - 1638 (January 7 - May 12): 1, 10-11; 25-26; 41-42; 57, 62; 77-78; 93-94; 113-15; 129-30; 149-51; 165-67; 185-87; 205-07; 225-26; 245-46; 265-66; 281-82; 301-2; 317-19; 333-34. Repub. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Serial version rpt. ed. Daniel Burgoyne. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2011 with extensive appendices. Repub. New York: Arno Press, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Another ed. New York: Harper & Brothers/London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910. The first ed. under the author’s name was the 3rd impression New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Rpt without the illus. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1969 with an “Introduction” by R.E. Watters (vii-xviii); ed. Malcolm Parks. [Ottawa, ON]: Carleton University Press, 1986 with the illus.; and Toronto, ON: Bakka Books Stone Fox Publishing, 2001. Extracts published as “The Kosekin.” The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1973), 99-105. Canadian Broadcasting Co. Audio Adaptation by Crawford Killian, 1972. The author was born James De Mill, but he changed the spelling. Can, Merril, PSt Lost race dystopia of reversal with satirical elements. The people seek death and separate from those they love. Poverty is preferred to wealth and has higher status, and those who anonymously give away money are punished when caught. Those who govern are despised. Stress on serving others rather than advancing oneself, The protagonist’s name is Adam More. Often erroneously described as “the first Canadian utopia.” Appears to have been originally written in the 1860s. |
