The book's Chapter I begins the story of how Drury met the mysterious I-Am-The-Man, who reads his own manuscript account of his adventures to Drury over many sessions. Then comes a Prologue in which Drury introduces himself. The complex structure of the books begins with a Preface signed by Lloyd, which presents the frame concept, that Lloyd has discovered a thirty-year-old manuscript by Llewellyn Drury in a library. Substances from marihuana and opium to nightshade, henbane, jimsonweed, and psilocybin mushrooms have been suggested as possibilities - though no real evidence on the matter is available. Since Lloyd was a pharmacologist, his novel has provoked speculation that drug use contributed to its fantastic and visionary nature. During the next generation, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a series of hollow-earth novels. Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth is the most famous book of this type, though many others can be cited.ĭuring John Uri Lloyd's generation, Bulwer Lytton's The Coming Race was popular and influential. Ideas presented in Etidorhpa include practical Alchemy, secret Masonic orders, the Hollow Earth theory and the concept of transcending the physical realm.Įtidorhpa belongs to a sub-genre of fiction that shares elements of science fiction, fantasy, Utopian fiction, and scientific (or pseudo-scientific) speculation. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth.
The book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Etidorhpa literary clubs were founded in the United States, and some parents named their infant daughters Etidorhpa.
Eventually a popular success, the book had eighteen editions and was translated into seven languages. The word "Etidorhpa" is the backward spelling of the name " Aphrodite." The first editions of Etidorhpa were distributed privately later editions of the book also feature numerous fanciful illustrations by J.
Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey is the title of a scientific allegory or science fiction novel by John Uri Lloyd, a pharmacognocist and pharmaceutical manufacturer of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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