W. W. STRICKLAND
Vishnu
or
The Planet Of The Sevenfold Unity
An autobiographical, scientific and mystical Romance
As the title indicates, Vishnu is a biographical, scientific, and mystical romance. Poe, Jules Verne, and W. G. Wells have before and since set the fashion of sending their characters on a visit to some sublunary sphere. It may perhaps be boasted that in Vishnu the method is subtler and somewhat less improbable than in the works of these distinguished writers. Although discursive in form, the unity of the piece has been preserved and to give a bare summary of the story would mar far more than benefit such vitality as it may possess. The judicious reader will trace the influence of the late George Eliot, though the author did not know her personally, more particularly perhaps of her last novel, “Daniel Deronda”. To those for whom the insoluble riddles of existence have their attractions, but who find insufficient the solutions of bygone superstitions, not to speak of the atmosphere of mysticism which surrounds the whole conceit, Vishnu will likely enough appeal.
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