The Coming Race

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, John Martin and John Crome. An American taken down a mine by an engineer friend climbs into a chasm and finds a world beneath the earth, where a serene winged people wield an energy called vril that makes war pointless and everyone equal — and finds their perfection more frightening than any tyranny. Bulwer-Lytton's v...