The original novel
The Coming Race.
By Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, 1871. The complete public-domain text, split into 29 chapters. This is the source novel, not the adaptation.
How this text is presented.
The novel is in the public domain in the United States. The text on these pages was prepared from the public-domain transcription issued as Project Gutenberg eBook #1951, produced by Fred Ihde and David Widger.
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Tim Fox’s adaptation—the silent short, the feature workbook, and the production stills—lives on other pages of this site. Nothing on this page should be read as that new work.
This edition
- Author
- Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton
- First published
- 1871
- Chapters
- 29
- Word count
- 52,433 (body of the novel)
- Source transcription
- Project Gutenberg eBook #1951
- Hosted as
- An homage on thecomingrace.com, not a Project Gutenberg edition
Contents
Chapters.
Each chapter opens with the first words of the 1871 text, then continues on its own page with previous and next links.