The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by Newcastle
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"The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World" by Margaret Cavendish is a work of prose fiction published in 1666. A young woman is kidnapped and swept to the North Pole, where she discovers a portal to a parallel world inhabited by human-animal hybrids. Mistaken for a goddess, she becomes empress of this strange realm, imposing new religions and philosophies. When war threatens her homeland, she returns with fantastical technologies to
restore order, blurring the lines between conquest, creation, and utopian imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World |
| Credits | Produced by Marc D'Hooghe |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 37.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Utopias -- Fiction |
| Subject | Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 51783 |
| Release Date | Apr 18, 2016 |
| Last Update | Jun 15, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1228 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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