Gulliver of Mars (eBook, ePUB) - Lester Linden Arnold, Edwin
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CHAPTER I
Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman—for a chimera in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness? At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I MUST write it—the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten. The tumult of the struggle into which that vision led me still throbs…mehr

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CHAPTER I

Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman—for a chimera in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness? At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I MUST write it—the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten. The tumult of the struggle into which that vision led me still throbs in my mind, the soft, lisping voices of the planet I ransacked for its sake and the roar of the destruction which followed me back from the quest drowns all other sounds in my ears! I must and will write—it relieves me; read and believe as you list.

At the moment this story commences I was thinking of grilled steak and tomatoes—steak crisp and brown on both sides, and tomatoes red as a setting sun!

Much else though I have forgotten, THAT fact remains as clear as the last sight of a well-remembered shore in the mind of some wave-tossed traveller. And the occasion which produced that prosaic thought was a night well calculated to make one think of supper and fireside, though the one might be frugal and the other lonely, and as I, Gulliver Jones, the poor foresaid Navy lieutenant, with the honoured stars of our Republic on my collar, and an undeserved snub from those in authority rankling in my heart, picked my way homeward by a short cut through the dismalness of a New York slum I longed for steak and stout, slippers and a pipe, with all the pathetic keenness of a troubled soul.
Autorenporträt
Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1857–1935) was a British author primarily known for his foray into science fiction and adventure genres. With a literary style that often featured exotic locales and fantastical elements reminiscent of the works of his more famous contemporary, H.G. Wells, Arnold carved a unique niche for himself with a blend of romantic adventure and early speculative fiction. His notable work, 'Gulliver of Mars', originally published in 1905, precedes the more well-known 'John Carter of Mars' series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and has been cited as an influence on Burroughs' Martian tales. Arnold's 'Gulliver of Mars', also known as 'Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation', presents a pioneering narrative in the planetary romance subgenre that weaves the story of an American naval officer's adventures on Mars, tackling themes of interplanetary travel and the exploration of alien civilizations. Although his work did not achieve the same level of acclaim during his lifetime as some of his peers, Arnold's contributions to the emergence of science fiction as a genre have been recognized by scholars and enthusiasts for their imaginative scope and innovative ideas that challenged the boundaries of early 20th-century literature.