"First, I must warn you,
before beginning this work,
not to be surprised to hear
me calling barbarians by
Grecian names."
--PLATO
_Critias_

ATLANTIDA

_Pierre Benoit_

Translated by Mary C. Tongue and Mary Ross

ACE BOOKS, INC. 1120 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10036


To André Suarès


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HASSI-INIFEL, NOVEMBER 8, 1903.


If the following pages are ever to see the light of day it will be
because they have been stolen from me. The delay that I exact before