The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg

Ents in Ludvig Holbergs Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground. Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above. Gergely Nagy: The Lost Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the. There are currently no reviews for this novel. No excerpt currently exists for this novel. Has also been published under the titles A Journey to the World Under-Ground by Nicholas Klimius and Niels Klim's Journey Under the Ground. First published in 1741, it has earned comparisons to Jonathan Swift's contemporaneous fantasy, Gulliver's Travels. The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground is a classic in speculative fiction and was the first fully realized novel set underground in a hollow earth. In this talk, I introduce Ludvig Holbergs 1751 Latin speculative fiction novel The Underground Journey of Niels Klim and argue that both its genre and the. Brave, inquisitive, and greedy, Klim faces many challenges, the greatest of which are his own temptations. In an epic journey, Klim visits countries led by sentient and contemplative trees, a kingdom of intelligent apes preoccupied with fashion and change, a land whose inhabitants don't speak out of their mouths, neighboring countries of birds locked in an eternal war, and a land where string basses talk musically to one another. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our own-exotic civilizations and fabulous creatures scattered across the underside of the earth's crust and, at the earth's center, a small, inhabited planet orbiting around a miniature sun. The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fictionįantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave. Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughsĥ8. The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Undergroundģ9. The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasyģ5.

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The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg