The Romance of Atlantis

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges a bit soiled with 1/2 inch closed tear to top corner, jacket price clipped, small sticker remnant on front endpaper. 1975 Hard Cover. 285 pp. The first novel Caldwell wrote, her own grandfather suppressed its publication out of disbelief that a twelve-year-old could produce something so complex and extraordinary (he assumed it was plagiarized). "The magnificent, sensuous Empress of Atlantis expected the foreign ambassadors. She even knew their mission. If she would wed their Emperor, Atlantis would be protected from invasion. She loathed the man, but had to reckon with his enormous power. So she devised a simple plan. She would give him her lovely and virginal sister in marriage. Since only death could take her from her throne, she would never be forced to surrender her beloved Atlantis in her lifetime! But there was one thing her hated suitor wanted even more than Atlantis. One thing he desired with a passion and was determined to possess -- herself." "Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 - August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer as a Man, appeared in 1980. (Inventory #: 2349730)