Excerpt from A Demigod: A Novel For several years after Dr. Vere's disappearance his friends tried to reopen communication with him, but no clew to his hiding-place could be obtained, and he was at last given up for dead. Two centuries have buried him deeper than the nethermost Troy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.