Power and Politics: An 8-Book Collection
Essays, Fiction, and Drama on Ambition, Governance, Class Conflict, and RevolutionBy John Jay Chapman, Alfred Henry Lewis, Robert Fitzgerald, Jules Claretie, Susanna Centlivre, Benjamin Disraeli, T. T. Jeans, Maksim Gorky
Length81h 48m
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Power and Politics: An 8-Book Collection traces the mutable forms of authority across drama, fiction, journalism, criticism, memoir-like observation, and political reflection. Spanning early modern theatrical wit through nineteenth-century social analysis and modern revolutionary writing, the volume stages power as both public institution and intimate pressure: exercised in courts, legislatures, newsrooms, drawing rooms, and streets. Its most compelling juxtapositions arise from the collision of satire and realism, reformist argument and dramatic intrigue, allowing questions of class, ambition, gender, representation, and coercion to resonate across distinct national traditions. The contributors form an unusually broad transnational and transhistorical assembly. They include a Restoration-era woman dramatist, British and American essayists and public intellectuals, French literary and theatrical culture, political fiction and commentary associated with Victorian Britain, and a major voice of Russian social realism and revolutionary-era thought. Rather than presenting a single doctrine, the collection gathers writers shaped by changing relations among monarchy, democracy, capitalism, mass media, and popular resistance. Their differences illuminate how political language itself shifts with genre and historical circumstance. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers of political literature, this volume offers a concentrated education in the literary imagination of power. Reading its works together reveals productive tensions between persuasion, spectacle, moral critique, and social experience, inviting sustained comparison across eras and forms.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length81 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The President
26X
2ILLUSTRATIONS
27XII
3One of the Most Reverend of the Senate Walruses
28Causes and Consequences
4CHAPTER V
29PREFACE
5CHAPTER VII
30I POLITICS
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6CHAPTER X
31II SOCIETY
7CHAPTER XII
32III EDUCATION: FROEBEL
8CHAPTER XIV
33IV DEMOCRACY
9That Artist of Pursuit
34V GOVERNMENT
10"Sit Down!" Thundered Mr.Harley
35On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution
11"It'll Take Two Months to Dig that Tunnel."
36CHAPTER III
12CHAPTER XXI
37CHAPTER IV
13His Excellency the Minister
38CHAPTER V
14PREFACE
39CHAPTER VI
15PART FIRST (pt. 1)
40CHAPTER VII
16PART FIRST (pt. 2)
41CHAPTER VIII
17PART FIRST (pt. 3)
42CHAPTER IX
18PART SECOND (pt. 1)
43CHAPTER X
19PART SECOND (pt. 2)
44CHAPTER XI
20PART SECOND (pt. 3)
45CHAPTER XII
21PART SECOND (pt. 4)
46CHAPTER XIII
22The Statesmen Snowbound
47CHAPTER XIV
23I
48CHAPTER XV
24V
49CHAPTER XVI
25VIII
50CHAPTER XVII
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