When the World Shook

Name: When the World Shook
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: H. Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781629230276

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 12 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 11/19/2013

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years! One of the awakened sleepers, Lord Oro, is the last of the Sons of Wisdom, a superior race who'd relied on their advanced technology to subjugate the planet's lesser peoples. The other Atlantean is Oro's daughter, Yva, heiress the title of Queen of the Earth. Unimpressed with the state of the world in the early 20th century, Oro sets out to do what he's apparently done once before: use a colossal gyroscope to drown the planet, and restart the course of human history.

About H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a popular English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, including King Solomon's Mines and She.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandy on August 18, 2011

In 1916, as World War I raged, Henry Rider Haggard, then 60 years old, started to compose his 48th novel, out of an eventual 58. Originally called "The Glittering Lady," the novel was ultimately released in 1919 under the title we know today, "When the World Shook," and turned out to be still anothe......more

Goodreads review by Wreade1872 on July 09, 2018

'..think not that you Westerners have done with wars.. and what the sword spares class shall snatch from class in the struggle for supremacy and ease.' Quite a lot of good moments in this sci-fi adventure story. Also probably one of Haggards smoothest reads. I imagine he had a few more passes on the......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 12, 2016

When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard is an unusual if flawed piece of early science fiction, laced with philosophy, religion, colonial anthropology, romance and humor. It is a post-Victorian novel, written during World War I, and the conflict impinges upon the narrative in various ways. When the......more