Edwin Lester Arnold — Bibliography
Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (14 May 1857 – 1 March 1935) English writer. Best known for Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905), an early planetary romance and possible influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom series.
Fiction
| Title | Year | Notes |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician | 1890 (US) / 1891 (UK) | First serialised in Illustrated London News; historical romance with reincarnation/suspended animation; Phra witnesses invasions of England across centuries. Intro by Sir Edwin Arnold. |
| The Constable of St. Nicholas | 1894 | Novel. |
| The Story of Ulla and Other Tales | 1895 | Collection. Includes “The Story of Ulla” (Short Stories, Mar 1892), “Rutherford the Twice-Born” (The Idler, May 1892), and eight other stories. |
| Lepidus the Centurion: A Roman of Today | 1901 | Lost-race/adult fantasy; commercially unsuccessful. Internet Archive |
| Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation | 1905 | Planetary romance; magic carpet to Mars; precursor to Burroughs. Republished as Gulliver of Mars (Ace 1964), Gullivar of Mars (Bison 2003). |
Non-fiction
| Title | Year | Notes |
| A Summer Holiday in Scandinavia | 1877 | Travel. Internet Archive |
| Coffee: Its Cultivation and Profit | 1886 | Internet Archive, HathiTrust |
| Bird Life in England | 1887 | Internet Archive |
| England as She Seems: Being Selections from the Notes of an Arab Hadji | 1888 | HathiTrust |
| On the Indian Hills: or, Coffee-planting in Southern India | 1893 | 2 vols., illustrated. Internet Archive, HathiTrust |
Full Text Available (Project Gutenberg)
| Title | PG # | Local | Format |
| Gulliver of Mars (Gullivar Jones) | 604 | pg604.txt | Plain text, HTML, EPUB, Kindle |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician | 67345 | pg67345.txt | Plain text, HTML, EPUB, Kindle |
Other Online Sources
- Internet Archive: search Edwin Lester Arnold — Lepidus the Centurion, Phra the Phoenician, The Story of Ulla, Coffee, Bird Life, A Summer Holiday in Scandinavia, On the Indian Hills
- HathiTrust: Several titles (page images)
- LibriVox: Gulliver of Mars audiobook
Life & Context
- Father: Sir Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), author of The Light of Asia (1879)
- Childhood: Largely in India; returned to England for agriculture and ornithology
- Career: Journalist from 1883; coffee cultivation in India/Ceylon
- Themes: Reincarnation, suspended animation, Buddhism (Phra; father’s influence)
- Reception: Gullivar Jones poorly received; Arnold wrote little fiction after 1905; Phra and Gullivar Jones are his best-known works
References
- Wikipedia: Edwin Lester Arnold
- The Online Books Page: Edwin Lester Arnold
- Project Gutenberg: Arnold, Edwin Lester
- ISFDB: Edwin L. Arnold
- SF Encyclopedia: Arnold, Edwin L
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