Camille Flammarion & August Nemo 
Essential Novelists – Camille Flammarion 
astronomical fiction

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Sara Jeannette Duncan wich are The Imperialist and An American Girl in London.
Duncan tended to identify as an Anglo-Indian, a somewhat marginalised group within the British Empire. Nine of her novels are set in India and most of her works are in the setting of Anglo-Indian society, of which she said ‚there is such abundance of material … it is full of such picturesque incidence, such tragic chance‘
Novels selected for this book:

– The Imperialist
– An American Girl in London This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Über den Autor

Nicolas Camille Flammarion (26 February 1842 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine L’Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.