Islandia

""Unique, brilliantly conceived and brilliantly,executed"" - New York Times,Back in print, the underground classic rivalled,only by J.R.R. Tolkein's Middle-earth describes,the detailed history of Islandia, which occupies,the southern portion of the Karain Continent and,boasts an ancient civilisation, protected by a,natural fortress of towering mountains. To this,isolated land comes John Lang, the American,consul, and together he and the reader come to,know and envy this magnetic land, its unique,people and its strange, wonderful customs.

A Harvard-educated lawyer, Austin Tappan Wright was born to a distinguished family. His father was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and his mother was a respected novelist. After serving in the Boston law firm of Louis Brandeis, Wright took faculty positions at the University of California Law School (Berkeley) and the University of Pennsylvania. He died at the age of 48 in an automobile accident leaving thousands of pages of manuscript detailing his lifelong construction of a wholly imagined world -- what was to become an acknowledged classic of utopian fantasy, Islandia.

Introduction

v

John Silbersack

PART I

Appointed Consul to Islandia

3

(12)

New York---St. Anthony---The City

15

(13)

First Weeks in Islandia

28

(33)

From The City to the Fains'

61

(14)

Incident at the Lor Pass

75

(20)

The Hyths

95

(21)

Dorn Island

116

(27)

Dorna

143

(11)

The Marsh Duck

154

(25)

Return to Dorn Island

179

(24)

PART II

The Somes and The City

203

(32)

At the Moras'

235

(17)

June, 1907

252

(38)

Winter: The Stellins

290

(22)

Spring: Visit to Dorn Island

312

(29)

The Hyths and The City

341

(19)

Summer: Dorna

360

(23)

PART III

The Exhibition Ship

383

(21)

The Visit of Dorn

404

(21)

Fall: The Fains and the Hyths

425

(29)

June, 1908: Lord Mora Speaks

454

(28)

June, 1908: Lord Dorn Speaks

482

(29)

Return to the Fains'

511

(32)

Early Winter at the Fains'

543

(32)

PART IV

The Upper Farm

575

(28)

The Vaba Pass

603

(24)

Hytha Nattana

627

(29)

Don

656

(30)

The Reckoning

686

(38)

Leave-Takings

724

(27)

Departure

751

(14)

PART V

The United States: Spring

765

(37)

The United States: Summer

802

(23)

Nantucket

825

(20)

Finding Values

845

(24)

PART VI

The Decision

869

(17)

Gladysa

886

(24)

Home-Coming

910

(25)

The Lay River Farm

935

(23)

Alia

958

(19)

A Bodwin Fable

977

(21)

Ania

998

(17)

Afterword

1015

Sylvia Wright

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