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Politico, saggista e studioso, è tra i maggiori autori americani di romanzi utopistico-distopici del XIX secolo. Laureatosi in giurisprudenza, si volse ben presto alla politica e alla letteratura, divenendo una figura complessa e stimolante in entrambi i campi. Sulla scia del dibattito allora in corso sulle condizioni della nascente classe operaia, sottoposta ad angherie della peggior specie, prese una sua originale e, per certi versi, catastrofica posizione sulle possibilità di poter riformare il sistema capitalista della Rivoluzione Industriale americana, il tutto superbamente narrato in Un Racconto del XX Secolo – La Colonna di Cesare, romanzo che ottenne un enorme successo di vendite. Noto anche per le sue teorie sull’esistenza di Atlantide e sull’attribuzione delle opere di William Shakespeare a Francis Bacon, scrisse Atlantis, the Antediluvian World (1881), che divenne un vero best-seller dell’epoca; Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel Ragnarok (1883); e The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon’s Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays (1888). Altri romanzi furono Doctor Huguet (1891) e The Golden Bottle (1892).
Caesar’s Column. E-book. Formato EPUB ebook
EBOOK   9788835869252

Caesar’s Column. E-book. Formato EPUB Ignatius Donnelly   -  E-Bookarama, 2025  - 

First published in 1890, "Caesar’s Column", a romance of the future, is a protest against what seemed to its author, Ignatius Donnelly, the evils inherent in corporate bigness. By 1988 the United States is to be dehumanized, and only a secret Brotherhood of Destruction can overthrow an American Fascist regime. But the Brotherhood of Destruction proves to be even more tyrannical, so that the narrator has to fly for his life to Africa, where republican virtue persists. "Caesar’s Column" is a fascinating example of the anti-utopia, a form of narrative lately represented by Huxley’s "Brave New World" and Orwell’s "1984"; its historical interest lies not only in its theme but also in its reflection and interpretation of social and political ideas current at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. E-book. Formato EPUB ebook
EBOOK   9791220225250

Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. E-book. Formato EPUB Ignatius Donnelly   -  E-Bookarama, 2025  - 

First published in 1883, "Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel" is a book by U.S. Congressman, populist writer, amateur scientist and Catastrophist Ignatius Donnelly. It is a companion to the more well-known work "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World."In "Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel," Donnelly argues that an enormous comet hit the earth 12,000 years ago, resulting in widespread fires, floods, poisonous gases, and unusually vicious and prolonged winters. The catastrophe destroyed a more advanced civilization, forcing its terrified population to seek shelter in caves. As cave-dwellers, they lost all knowledge of art, literature, music, philosophy, and engineering...In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.

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