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A China-Doll family happily lives in a dollhouse at a toy shop reading books and dancing "The Waltz of the Dolls" with the piano accompaniment of Mrs. Doll. . One day, Henry purchases the dollhouse and the dolls for his niece, Elizabeth, and the dolls are wrapped, put inside a box, and sent to the tropics, where Elizabeth lives.
In October, 1896 Sampson Low (London) published the novel as The Floating Island, or The Pearl of the Pacific, translated by W. J. Gordon, with 80 illustrations.While Gordon was an accomplished translator, boy's author, and literary figure with an accurate translation of Verne's The Giant Raft to his credit, the dark social commentary of Propeller Island did not sit well with his publishers ...
The flying island of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. (Illustrated 1795.) In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.
The Floating Island is a 1673 satirical novel by Richard Head, though he published it under the name of Frank Careless. It is a parody of stories of adventure, describing the travels of captain Robert Owe-much through distant lands, which reference various neighbourhoods of London .
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Books written or published in the year 1673. ... The Floating Island (Head novel) H. Happy Captivity;
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat. Floating island may also refer to: Very large floating structure, a real or fictional artificial floating "island" Floating island (fiction), the concept in fiction; Floating island (dessert), a French dessert; The Floating Island, a 1673 novel by Richard Head
Fictional floating islands, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means. While very large floating structures have been constructed or proposed in real life, aerial cities and islands remain in the realm of fiction.
She has written two fantasy series set within the same universe, the fantasy/romance/whodunit fusion called The Symphony of Ages and the young adult series The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme. An herbalist, harpist, and madrigal singer, Elizabeth Haydon also enjoys anthropology and folklore. She lives on the East Coast of the United States.