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A Crystal Age

Author
William Henry Hudson
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
5 hours 42 minutes
ISBN
9781836100782
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • utopian society
  • future world
  • pastoral life
  • cultural contrast
  • love and desire
  • individuality
  • philosophical fiction
  • social values
  • identity
  • speculative fiction

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A Crystal Age follows a Victorian man who awakens after an accident in a distant future where technology, conflict, and ambition have vanished. Living in a pastoral society governed by unfamiliar customs, he becomes devoted to the enigmatic Yoletta and struggles to understand concepts of age, love, and worth. As he attempts to assert his individuality, William Henry Hudson explores utopia, desire, and the uneasy cost of perfect harmony.

Author

W. H. Hudson (1841–1922) wrote as if the natural world were speaking through him — birds, grasslands, forests, and the human longing to belong among them. Raised in Argentina and long resident in England, he brought New World memory into English nature writing with uncommon freshness.

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