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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder · Character

Henry More

The simple-minded, emotional sailor whose manuscript is the novel itself, written in hope it might one day reach his father.

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Also known as More

First appearance: ii adrift in the antarctic ocean

As a supporting figure in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Henry More is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

More is the absent narrator whose voice fills the copper cylinder, a man Oxenden defends as sincere rather than scientific. He wrote not for notoriety or statistics but out of longing for his father, which is why the account is personal, vivid, and unsystematic. His emotional motive is the reason the Kosekin world reaches us at all, and his gaps and biases shape everything the reader can and cannot know.

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TNThe NarratorTDThe DoctorLFLord Featherst…NONoel OxendenAGAgnewHMHenry More

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  • Expedition's scientific and historical figures
  • Protagonist
  • Kosekin society and narrator's companions
  • Surviving crew members

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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.

SetupAftermathClimax
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  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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See Henry More in ii adrift in the antarctic ocean
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Henry More — A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder