Utopias, dystopias, and satirical voyages
9 books
A journey to the world under-groundLudvig Holberg · 1741An English translation of Holberg's satirical novel, published in London in 1741, following student Nicholas Klimius of Bergen, who descends into a Norwegian cave, falls through the earth to a hollow-world planet, and journeys among its strange lands and peoples before returning home.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
HerlandCharlotte Perkins Gilman · 1915A 1915 utopian novel told as a memoir by a male explorer. Three American adventurers journey to a hidden, isolated country inhabited entirely by women, seeking to discover the truth behind local legends of a land where no men live.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
In the year 2889Michel Verne · 1889A short work of speculative fiction by Michel Verne, published under his father Jules Verne's name, imagining life in the year 2889. It follows newspaper magnate Fritz Napoleon Smith through a single day in a future of advanced technology.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887Edward Bellamy · 1888A utopian novel published in 1888, told as the narration of Julian West, a wealthy young Bostonian born in 1857 who finds himself living in the year 2000 and explains the transformed social order through comparisons with nineteenth-century society.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
Lucian's True HistoryLucian of Samosata · 170A satirical ancient Greek travel tale by Lucian of Samosata, in which the narrator admits he is lying while recounting a fantastical voyage. This 1902 edition presents Francis Hickes's translation, illustrated by Strang, Clark, and Beardsley, with an introduction by Charles Whibley.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
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.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The Napoleon of Notting HillG. K. Chesterton · 1904A 1904 illustrated satirical fantasy novel by G. K. Chesterton, depicting a future London where the London suburb of Notting Hill, led by the idealistic Adam Wayne, rises in romantic, absurd warfare against the city's imperial rulers.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
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.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية