Dystopias and warnings

6 books

1900; or, The last PresidentIngersoll Lockwood · 1896An 1896 political novel imagining the election of William Bryan-like candidate and the unrest that follows in New York and across the nation, as mobs rise against the wealthy and a mysterious figure behind the president's victory gains power.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Ball and the CrossG. K. Chesterton · 1909A 1909 novel by G. K. Chesterton in which Professor Lucifer, aboard a flying ship, and a monk clash over faith and science, leading to an ongoing debate between two men, one atheist and one Christian, over a cross atop St. Paul's Cathedral.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The iron heelJack London · 1908A 1908 dystopian novel by Jack London, presented as a future historical manuscript by Avis Everhard describing the rise of a brutal American oligarchy, the Iron Heel, and the socialist revolution led by her husband Ernest Everhard.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper WakesH. G. Wells · 1910A revised edition of H. G. Wells's 1899 science fiction novel, first serialized in the Graphic. A chronically sleepless stranger whom Wells's preface identifies as Graham awakens after long years to find himself in a transformed future world, amid upheaval involving Ostrog and the People.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

WeEvgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin · 1924A 1924 English translation of Zamiatin's Russian novel We, presenting his dystopian story of a mechanized society, with a foreword by translator Gregory Zilboorg discussing the author's life and the book's ban in Russia.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

When the Sleeper WakesH. G. Wells · 1899A novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1899, about a sleepless, despairing stranger whom a young artist encounters on the Cornish coast, opening with the man's worsening insomnia, drug use, and spiral toward mental collapse.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية