Rondah; or, thirty-three years in a star

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FLORENCE CARPENTER DIEUDONNÉ.
“Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, is an exceedingly bright, clever and fascinating novel. It is cast in a peculiar mould, and holds the reader as much by its weird singularity as by its ingenious plot and striking incidents. The theme is mainly the strange adventures and experiences of four people, three men and one woman, who, in the midst of a storm, are cast from the Earth to a small star, which is as yet in a volcanic state and but partially cooled, Rondah, the heroine, being left behind. There they remain for over thirty-three years, during twenty of which, the winter season, they sleep, as is the habit of the inhabitants of the star, who are mostly bird people with wings. These bird people are vegetables and grow in enormous pods. The action never pauses and surprise is followed by surprise. Love and jealousy are mingled with mystery, forming a romance of decided interest and much power. The heroine is afterwards brought to the star and takes part in a number of startling episodes, notably the exploration of the wonderful Sun Island. “Rondah” is one of the best of the fanciful novels now so popular.
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FLORENCE CARPENTER DIEUDONNÉ.
1887.
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“Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” is one of the brightest, most ingenious and most absorbing of the fanciful and mysterious class of novels recently made so popular by H. Rider Haggard. It is much better than “She” or “King Solomon’s Mines,” and will give greater satisfaction. The plot is strange and weird and the incidents surprising in the highest degree. The scene is laid chiefly in a little star with subterranean volcanic fires and boiling seas. To this small planet, not yet entirely fitted for human inhabitants, some of the characters are conveyed by extraordinary means from the Earth while a tempest is in progress. Their adventures during the luxuriant summer and the icy twenty years’ winter are vividly and strikingly depicted, love, hate, jealousy and enthusiasm entering largely into their very peculiar and interesting experience. The heroine, who for a time remains on Earth, has also a strange career. She eventually reaches the star and plays a prominent part in the disclosure of the mysteries of the Sun Island, a wonderful region of marvels and magnificence. The romance is by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, and is finely written. It will be widely read and greatly liked.