Caesar's Column A Story of the Twentieth Century

Name: Caesar's Column A Story of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780819566669

ISBN-10: 0819566667

ISBN-13: 9780819566669

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ignatius Donnelly, Nicholas Ruddick, Nicholas Ruddick

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Published in 1890, Caesar's Column is an account of a trip to New York City in 1988 by a visitor from the Swiss colony of Uganda. The great metropolis dazzles with its futuristic technology, but its ostentatious wealth and luxury mask the brutal repression of the laboring classes by their rich bosses. The workers, aided by international terrorists, stage a violent revolt and the narrator flees the devastated city by airship to found an agrarian utopia in Africa. Fueled by outrage at social conditions, Caesar's Column was the first major dystopian novel in the English language. Its author, Ignatius Donnelly, was the most famous--and controversial--American populist politician of the day,…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

NICHOLAS RUDDICK is a professor of English at the University of Regina and author of Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction (1993).



Acknowledgments


A Note on References


Introduction


Ignatius Donnelly: A Chronology


A Note on the Text


Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century


Notes


Bibliography


About the Author and the Editor