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THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION
THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION. - CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
In the soot‑stained alleys of late‑Victorian London, a gaunt young visionary clings to a single, soaring ambition: to master the hidden forces of the sky. Richard Arnold has spent half a decade turning his brilliant mind to the unsolved problem of aerial navigation, spurning lucrative offers and alienating friends in the process. Fueled by a modest inheritance and a fierce, almost obsessive belief in his dream, he declares at the eleventh hour that he has finally cracked the secret of the air.
The novel follows Arnold’s precarious descent from enthusiastic outsider to a figure poised on the brink of a technological upheaval that could reshape warfare and society. As his invention begins to take shape, shadowy forces and political intrigue stir, hinting at a looming conflict that will test the limits of his genius and his conscience. Listeners are drawn into a world where invention meets ideology, and where the promise of progress is tangled with the threat of terror.
Language
en
Duration
~14 hours (809K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Bruce Albrecht, Michael Roe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.
Release date
2010-02-18
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1857–1906
A fast-moving Victorian storyteller of scientific romance, he filled his novels with airships, future wars, and journeys beyond Earth. For a few years in the 1890s, he was one of Britain’s best-known science fiction writers.
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