The Great Stone of Sardis
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The Great Stone of Sardis

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The Great Stone of Sardis

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A double adventure written at the end of the 19th century, somewhat in the theme of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, telling of a submarine trip in the year 1947 to reach the North Pole and a project to examine the center of the Earth by boring a deep shaft. What they find at the core of the planet surprises the enterprising explorers.

Since the book was set about 50 years into the future from when it was written, it includes some speculations on the advancement of science and technology, as the author explains in his introduction.

A literary reviewer has said about this novel: "The conception was bizarre and grotesque enough, but the author developed it into a fascinating tale, incidentally injecting into it a good deal of drollery and fun. The tale shows that aspect of Stockton's genius that is inclined to the whimsical and chimerical, as well as the mechanical turn of his invention."
("The Fiction of Frank R. Stockton" by Edwin W. Bowen in The Sewanee Review, Vol. 28, No. 3, July 1920, pp. 452-462)

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH
  3. Chapter 1 - THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUTERPE-THALIA
  4. Chapter 2 - THE SARDIS WORKS
  5. Chapter 3 - MARGARET RALEIGH
  6. Chapter 4 - THE MISSION OF SAMUEL BLOCK
  7. Chapter 5 - UNDER WATER
  8. Chapter 6 - VOICES FROM THE POLAR SEAS
  9. Chapter 7 - GOOD NEWS GOES FROM SARDIS
  10. Chapter 8 - THE DEVIL ON THE DIPSEY
  11. Chapter 9 - THE ARTESIAN RAY
  12. Chapter 10 - "LAKE SHIVER"
  13. Chapter 11 - THEY BELIEVE IT IS THE POLAR SEA
  14. Chapter 12 - CAPTAIN HUBBELL TAKES COMMAND
  15. Chapter 13 - LONGITUDE EVERYTHING
  16. Chapter 14 - A REGION OF NOTHINGNESS
  17. Chapter 15 - THE AUTOMATIC SHELL
  18. Chapter 16 - THE TRACK OF THE SHELL
  19. Chapter 17 - CAPTAIN HUBBELL DECLINES TO GO WHALING
  20. Chapter 18 - Mr. MARCY'S CANAL
  21. Chapter 19 - THE ICY GATEWAY
  22. Chapter 20 - "THAT IS HOW I LOVE YOU"
  23. Chapter 21 - THE CAVE OF LIGHT
  24. Chapter 22 - CLEWE'S THEORY
  25. Chapter 23 - THE LAST DIVE OF THE DIPSEY
  26. Chapter 24 - ROVINSKI COMES TO THE SURFACE
  27. Chapter 25 - LAURELS
  28. Attribution and License