Kophetua The Thirteenth

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"Kophetua the Thirteenth" is a Victorian-era novel of political satire. The plot evolves in the mysterious land of Oneria – a utopian colony established in Africa during the Renaissance, in the age known as Elizabethan. The colony is a self-sustained country trading with Western Europe. Yet, the political system of the country (elimination of taxes or sending those incapables of living a good Christian life to special enclaves) aimed to provide for the utopian society brings about different results. The novel is a great example of the romantic literature of the Victorian era as a genre.

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Excerpt from Kophetua the Thirteenth The outburst of political speculation which followed the Renaissance is well known to us by its remarkable literature. True it is that the greater part of it is long Since dead and Sleeps in peace, save where every now and then its ghosts are scared by a literary historian. But this Obscurity only adds to its interest, and increases at once the charm, the safety, and the credit we may enjoy in discussing it. For the ordinary Englishman perhaps the only work of the class which is still really alive is the delightful political romance of Sir Thomas More. Yet to those who love the dustier shelves of libraries long ranks of its comrades will be not unfamiliar, standing guard as it were over the memory of an intellectual movement as vigorous and creative as any the world has seen. It is to the more daring and fantastic of these works that this chapter in the history Of philosophy owes its charm and freshness. So entrancing indeed are they that those double traitors to humanity, who not only write books, but write books about books, have led us to look upon these ponderous folios as the only mark the movement has left on history, and we are apt to forget that it also had its practical side. Yet that side not only had an existence, but it was even more romantic and fanciful than the other. For many of the pregnant seeds from the tree of political knowledge, which the strong breath of the Renaissance was wafting over Europe, fell on good ground, where pedantry did not spring up and choke them. There were many cultivated earnest gentlemen of that time in whose chivalrous hearts they alighted, and whose imagination was so stirred with the new ideas, that they actually attempted to carry them into practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.