
Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition
Eighteen Classic Visions of Surveillance, Social Control, and Oppressive FuturesBy Jack London, Ernest Bramah, Sinclair Lewis, Anthony Trollope, Milo Hastings, Aldous Huxley, Francis Stevens, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Hugh Benson, Yevgeny ZamyatinLength163h 47m
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Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition surveys the modern imagination of social catastrophe, gathering speculative fiction, political satire, philosophical fable, adventure narrative, and religious or technological prophecy. Its visions of regimented states, engineered populations, surveillance, consumerism, war, and declining individuality illuminate the literary genealogy of dystopia. Landmark narratives of bureaucratic coercion and scientifically managed futures stand beside less frequently anthologized experiments, revealing the genre's remarkable formal breadth. The contributors span British, American, Russian, and European traditions, bringing together writers associated with science fiction, social realism, satire, Christian apologetics, utopian critique, and political journalism. Their collective work emerges from the pressures of industrialization, mass politics, revolution, total war, and the expansion of modern technology. Across differing ideological commitments and national contexts, these voices test the promises of progress against its authoritarian shadows, enriching dystopia as a transnational literary mode. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking to trace how dystopian writing developed through contrasting styles and historical anxieties. It offers students and general readers an accessible comparative archive, encouraging attention to the productive dialogue between warning, invention, irony, and resistance. To read these works together is to encounter not one future, but many competing diagnoses of modernity.
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GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length163 hrs 47 mins
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Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Novels of E. E. "Doc" Smith (Annotated)
26Chapter IV
2Dystopia Boxed Set: 18 Dystopian Classics in One Edition
27Chapter V
3One (pt. 1)
28Chapter VI
4One (pt. 2)
29Chapter VII
5Two (pt. 1)
30Chapter VIII
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6Two (pt. 2)
31Chapter IX
7Three (pt. 1)
32Chapter X
8Three (pt. 2)
33Chapter XI
9Appendix
34Chapter XII
10Animal Farm
35Chapter XIII
11Chapter I
36Chapter XIV
12Chapter II
37Chapter XV
13Chapter III
38Chapter XVI
14Chapter IV
39Chapter XVII
15Chapter V
40Chapter XVIII
16Chapter VI
41BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (An Essay by Aldous Huxley)
17Chapter VII
42Foreword
18Chapter VIII
43I. Over-Population
19Chapter IX
44II. Quantity, Quality, Morality
20Chapter X
45III. Over-Organization
21Brave New World
46IV. Propaganda in a Democratic Society
22BRAVE NEW WORLD: A Novel
47V. Propaganda Under a Dictatorship
23Chapter I
48VI. The Arts of Selling
24Chapter II
49VII. Brainwashing
25Chapter III
50VIII. Chemical Persuasion