de L'isle Adam, Villiers; Adams, Robert Martin

Tomorrow's Eve

Translator's Introduction ix TOMORROW'S EVE Advice to the Reader 3(4) BOOK I: Mr. Edison Menlo Park 7(1) Phonograph's Papa 8(1) The Lamentations of Edison 9(2) Sowana 11(2) A Summary Soliloquy 13(1) Mysterious Sounds 14(1) A Dispatch 15(2) The Dreamer Touches a Dream Object 17(2) Retrospective 19(2) Snapshots of World History 21(3) Lord Ewald 24(4) Alicia 28(2) Shadows 30(2) How Substance Changes with Form 32(2) Analysis 34(2) Hypothesis 36(3) Dissection 39(5) Confrontation 44(3) Remonstrations 47(6) BOOK II: The Pact White Magic 53(3) Security Measures 56(1) Apparition 57(2) Preliminaries to a Miracle 59(5) Amazement 64(1) Excelsior! 65(7) Of the Swiftness of Scholars 72(2) Time at a Stop 74(4) Ambiguous Pleasantries 78(7) Cosi Fan Tutte 85(1) Chivalric Discourse 86(1) Travelers into the Idea: The Trail Divides! 87(4) BOOK III: An Underground Eden Easy Is the Descent into Avernus 91(1) Enchantments 92(1) Birdsongs 93(1) God 94(2) Electricity 96(7) BOOK IV: The Secret Miss Evelyn Habal 103(3) Serious Sides of Light Adventures 106(4) The Shadow of the Upas Tree 110(7) Danse Macabre 117(2) Exhumation 119(3) Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense 122(2) Dazzlement 124(5) BOOK V: Hadaly First Appearance of the Machine in Humanity 129(5) Nothing New under the Sun 134(5) Walking 139(4) The Eternal Female 143(1) Equilibrium 144(3) Something Striking 147(2) I Am Black but Comely 149(1) Flesh 150(3) Rosy Mouth, Pearly Teeth 153(1) Aromatic 153(2) Urania 155(2) The Eyes of the Spirit 157(2) Physical Eyes 159(2) Hair 161(1) Epidermis 162(1) The Hour Strikes 162(7) BOOK VI: ...And There Was Shadow! Dinner with the Magician 169(3) Suggestion 172(10) The Price of Fame 182(5) A Night of Eclipse 187(6) The Androsphinx 193(1) Figures in the Night 194(2) Struggles with the Angel 196(2) Angelic Aid 198(3) Revolt 201(1) Incantation 202(1) Night Idyll 203(1) Penseroso 204(4) Expeditious Explanations 208(8) Farewells 216(2) Fate 218(2) Appendix: Villiers' Epigraphs 220