The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- First published
- 1666
- Reading level
- Demanding
- Price
- Free
About the book
"The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World" by Margaret Cavendish is a work of prose fiction published in 1666. A young woman is kidnapped and swept to the North Pole, where she discovers a portal to a parallel world inhabited by human-animal hybrids. Mistaken for a goddess, she becomes empress of this strange realm, imposing new religions and philosophies. When war threatens her homeland, she returns with fantastical technologies to restore order, blurring the lines between conquest, creation, and utopian imagination.
- Science fiction
- Utopias
- Voyages, Imaginary
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #51783. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World on Wikipedia.
