Izzy´s eBook Library - Born Again by Alfred Lawson

Born Again
Author: Alfred Lawson
Published: 1904
Source: ManyBooks.net

A strangely bad Utopian fantasy written while Lawson was a professional baseball player.

Born Again, his only novel, was first published in 1904 - while Lawson was still making his living playing baseball. It is the story of a man, John Convert (can those initials be a coincidence?), bearing some resemblance to Lawson himself, who is thrown off a ship after an argument with his fellow crewmen, an incident with some basis in real life. Convert is lucky enough to be washed ashore on a strange little island; in the act of exploring it, he falls through an opening into a complex of subterranean buildings.

(OddBooks)