Fiction · 1900
The Lost Continent
Framed as a manuscript written by Deucalion, a high priest and military commander of ancient Atlantis, the novel follows the political intrigue, court rivalries, and eventual catastrophe that destroy the empire from the inside — years before the continent actually sinks beneath the ocean. Hyne treats Atlantis as a real, functioning empire with its own bureaucracy and factional politics rather than a vague myth.
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne published The Lost Continent in 1900 — not to be confused with Edgar Rice Burroughs's unrelated 1916 novel of the same name, also in Bibliomancer's catalog.
Bibliomancer publishes the 1900 text exactly as C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne wrote it.
Contents
- The Legatees of Deucalion
- 1 — My Recall
- 2 — Back to Atlantis
- 3 — A Rival Navy
- 4 — The Welcome of Phorenice
- 5 — Zaemon’s Curse
- 6 — The Biters of the City Walls
- 7 — The Biters of the Walls (Further Account)
- 8 — The Preacher from the Mountains
- 9 — Phorenice, Goddess
- 10 — A Wooing
- 11 — An Affair with the Barbarous Fishers
- 12 — The Drug of Our Lady the Moon
- 13 — The Burying Alive of Nais
- 14 — Again the Gods Make Change
- 15 — Zaemon’s Summons
- 16 — Siege of the Sacred Mountain
- 17 — Nais the Regained
- 18 — Storm of the Sacred Mountain
- 19 — Destruction of Atlantis
- 20 — On the Bosom of the Deep
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About the author
1866–1944 · Modern
C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866–1944) was born in Bibury, Gloucestershire, and educated at Bradford Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge. He worked as a journalist and travel writer before turning to fiction, creating the red-haired Welsh sea captain Captain Kettle in 1897 for Pearson's Magazine, a serial hero commissioned to rival Sherlock Holmes and popular enough that Hyne wrote him across a dozen further volumes. The Lost Continent (1900), his best-remembered novel today, recasts Atlantis — inspired by Ignatius Donnelly's speculative Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1880) — as a functioning empire with its own court intrigue and factional politics, framed as a manuscript written by one of its own priests. He wrote roughly fifty novels in all, some under the pseudonym Weatherby Chesney, and died in Kettlewell, Yorkshire.
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