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At the Mountains of Madness

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

At the Mountains of Madness

Paper book: €23.99

Digital: €8.99

Original publication
1936
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
335
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Moods
Get the chills, Imagine tomorrow, Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

In 1930, a scientific expedition sets out to explore Antarctica. Beyond mountains higher than the Himalayas, two men fly over a vast stone city, abandoned for millions of years. On its walls, carvings tell the story of its builders, who came from the stars long before mankind.

The narrator is writing to stop a new expedition from leaving, and one question drives the whole story: what did they see out there?

With the translation always in front of you, you can follow this expedition in the language you are learning.

The plot

An expedition to Antarctica. Scientists from an American university sail for Antarctica. They take planes with them, and a machine that can drill into frozen rock.

The world of the book

The last unknown continent. The novel takes place in the early 1930s. At that time, nobody had yet explored the whole of Antarctica, and maps still had large blank spaces there. The cold is terrible and the wind blows…

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