The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by C. J.
Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the
story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements of the myth told by Plato
with the earlier Greek myth concerning the survival of a universal flood and
restoration of the human race by Deucalion. […]
The novel uses the common nineteenth-century device of a "framing story" to
set its narrative in context and augment its believability. The story proper
was written supposedly by Deucalion, a warrior-priest of ancient Atlantis; the
text having been partly destroyed inadvertently by one of its discoverers at
the time of its finding, it is not entirely complete. Deucalion's account
describes his heroic but ultimately doomed battle to save Atlantis from
destruction by its avaricious and selfish queen, Phorenice.
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