Project Gutenberg 2008-06-21 Public domain in the USA. 128 Peyton, Green 1907 1968 Wertenbaker, Green Peyton Briggs, Austin 1908 1973 The Chamber of Life Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Chamber of Life" by Green Peyton Wertenbaker is a science fiction novel written during the late 1920s. The story explores themes of consciousness, reality, and the pursuit of artistic fulfillment through an innovative machine that allows users to experience sensations and emotions as if they were living another life. It examines the implications of such technology on human relationships and the concept of lived experience. The narrative follows a character named Barrett, who awakens in a lake with no memory of how he got there. Through a chance meeting with the intriguing inventor Melbourne, he is introduced to the "Chamber of Life," an apparatus designed to immerse users into a surreal, vivid alternate reality. As Barrett experiences this new life in a fantastical world with Selda, a woman he comes to love, he struggles with the reality that he is destined to return to his ordinary existence. The story raises profound questions on predestination, identity, and the nature of love, culminating in Barrett's poignant realization of the bittersweet truth of his experiences. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 93639 93648 2024-09-11T07:05:47.064981 2023-09-11T10:19:47.755110 text/html text/html 91813 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 107993 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 153903 2024-09-11T07:05:50.655977 application/epub+zip 153138 2024-09-11T07:05:48.341999 application/epub+zip 78071 2024-09-11T07:05:47.484970 application/epub+zip 239261 2024-09-11T07:05:52.461941 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 228978 2024-09-11T07:05:50.189983 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154319 2022-09-12T06:35:28.513926 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 84234 84129 2024-09-11T07:05:46.780036 2023-09-11T10:19:47.510139 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 84051 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 32145 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 84042 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32125 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20341 2024-09-11T07:05:52.596944 application/rdf+xml 12336 2024-09-11T07:05:47.838001 image/jpeg 3399 2024-09-11T07:05:47.660022 image/jpeg 150063 2024-09-11T07:05:47.076986 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog