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Preface
_ MIZORA: A PROPHECY
A MSS. FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATE PAPERS
OF THE PRINCESS VERA ZAROVITCH;
Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the
Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the
Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government.
PREFACE
The narrative of Vera Zarovitch, published in the Cincinnati Commercial in 1880 and 1881, attracted a great deal of attention. It commanded a wide circle of readers, and there was much more said about it than is usual when works of fiction run through a newspaper in weekly installments. Quite a number of persons who are unaccustomed to bestowing consideration upon works of fiction spoke of it, and grew greatly interested in it.
I received many messages about it, and letters of inquiry, and some ladies and gentlemen desired to know the particulars about the production of the story in book form; and were inquisitive about it and the author who kept herself in concealment so cl
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