1741 Books (Study Guide) - 1741 Novels, Niels Klim's Underground Travels, an Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, 1741 in Literature (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1741 Novels, Niels Klim's Underground Travels, an Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, 1741 in Literature, the Anti-Pamela; or Feign'd Innocence Detected, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier Des Chartreux. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741), is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist, historian and essayist. It was his first and only novel. It describes a utopian society from an outsider's point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as morality, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy. The novel starts with a foreword that assures that everything in the story is a real account of the title character's exploits in the Underworld. The story is set, according to the book, in the Norwegian harbor town of Bergen in 1664, after Klim returns from Copenhagen, where he has studied philosophy and theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated magna cum laude. His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. He ends up falling down the hole, and after a while he finds himself floating in free space. After a few days of orbiting the planet which revolves around the inner sun, he is attacked by a gryphon, and he falls down on the planet, which is named Nazar. There he wanders about for a short while until he is attacked once again, this time by an ox. He climbs up into a tree, and to his astonishment the tree can move and talk (this one screamed), and he is taken prisoner by tree-like c...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3959849