Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey (1892) is a children’s fantasy novel by Ingersoll Lockwood, an American lawyer and author who published several whimsical tales featuring the young nobleman Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, known as “Little Baron Trump,” and his faithful dog Bulger. In this adventure, the young Baron travels deep into the earth, encountering fantastical subterranean civilizations in the tradition of Jules Verne’s hollow-earth fiction.
The book is a product of the late-Victorian enthusiasm for fantasy adventure for children, written with a gentle satirical wit aimed as much at adult readers as young ones. Now famous as a curiosity of nineteenth-century literature, the free EPUB download lets readers judge the book entirely on its own eccentric merits.