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y separately published work icon The Island of Fantasy : A Romance single work   novel   adventure   science fiction   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 The Island of Fantasy : A Romance
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The narrative involves a scheme to recreate classical Greek culture in an island community.

Notes

  • Title page quotation: Sorrow and weariness / heartache and dreariness / None should endure / Scale ye the mountain peak / Vale o' the fountain seek / There is the cure.

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Works about this Work

Lost and Found Cities and Peoples : Islands Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 89-90)

— Review of Colymbia Robert Ellis Dudgeon , 1873 single work novel ; A Mystery of the Pacific W. H. O. Smeaton , 1899 single work children's fiction ; The Expedition of Captain Flick Fergus Hume , 1896 single work novel ; The Island of Fantasy : A Romance Fergus Hume , 1892 single work novel
Lost and Found Cities and Peoples : Islands Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 89-90)

— Review of Colymbia Robert Ellis Dudgeon , 1873 single work novel ; A Mystery of the Pacific W. H. O. Smeaton , 1899 single work children's fiction ; The Expedition of Captain Flick Fergus Hume , 1896 single work novel ; The Island of Fantasy : A Romance Fergus Hume , 1892 single work novel
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