Percival, Dr
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym or working name of C Percival (? -? ), author of The Flaming Sword: Being an Account of the Extraordinary Adventures and Discoveries of Dr Percival in the Wilds of Africa, Written by Himself (1894), a Lost World tale in which the narrator, who is not quick witted, discovers and combats mammoths and other creatures typical of Prehistoric SF, working out finally that he may have blundered into the Garden of Eden (see Shaggy God Story). [JC]
C Percival
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- The Flaming Sword: Being an Account of the Extraordinary Adventures and Discoveries of Dr Percival in the Wilds of Africa, Written by Himself (London: Digby, Long, 1894) [hb/]
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