Prosperity · #1
Prosperity
A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies!
Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about to cheat the wrong man. This mistake will endanger his life... and his heart.
Thrill! As our hero battles dreadful kraken above Prosperity. Gasp! As the miracles of clockwork engineering allow a dead man to wreak his vengeance upon the living. Marvel! At the aerial escapades of the aethership, Shadowless.
Beware! The licentious and unchristian example set by the opium-addled navigatress, Miss Grey. Disapprove Strongly! Of the utter moral iniquity of the dastardly crime prince, Milord. Swoon! At the dashing skycaptain, Byron Kae. Swoon Again! At the tormented clergyman, Ruben Crowe.
This volume (available in print, and for the first time on mechanical book-reading devices) contains the complete original text of Piccadilly’s memoirs as first serialised in All the Year Round. Some passages may prove unsettling to unmarried gentlemen of a sensitive disposition.
The series
For your edification, we herein present the tales of Prosperity: diverting, thrilling, and instructive stories for gentlemen and ladies of discerning temperament and sound constitution.
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Inspired by true events that took place between the Great Phlogiston Rush of 1855 and the cataclysmic eruption that tore open the skies above England a decade later, this sensational collection chronicles the escapades of criminals, buccaneers, preachers, aethermancers, and madmen. Also a woman.
Airships! Skytowns! Krakens! Adventure! Danger! Passion!
Plus sundry educational notes and moral lessons.
While the stories are numbered in suggested reading order, all books but #1 (Prosperity) can be read out of order without affecting the reading experience. There Will Be Phlogiston may also be read first. However, for maximum enjoyment, we strongly recommend you read Prosperity first, then pick and choose as suits your tastes.
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