THE LEAGUE OF BIG BROTHERS - 18 Dystopia Classics in One Volume
Eighteen Classic Visions of Surveillance, Social Engineering, and ResistanceBy George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Jack London, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, H. G. Wells, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Francis Stevens, Anthony Trollope
Length163h 34m
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THE LEAGUE OF BIG BROTHERS assembles eighteen foundational dystopian narratives that chart the dangers of surveillance, technocracy, ideological conformity, eugenics, corporate power, and manipulated desire. Ranging from prophetic romance and speculative adventure to political satire, theological warning, and chillingly bureaucratic nightmare, the volume demonstrates that dystopia emerged through many literary idioms. Its standout visions of regimented futures, omnipresent authority, and resistance retain exceptional force in an age attentive to data, propaganda, and social control. Bringing together writers associated with modernism, early science fiction, social realism, Christian apologetics, imperial and anti-imperial critique, and popular romance, the collection maps a broad transatlantic and European genealogy of dystopian thought. George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Yevgeny Zamyatin, H. G. Wells, Jack London, and Sinclair Lewis appear alongside less frequently anthologized innovators whose works complicate the familiar canon. Their varied political commitments and cultural horizons reveal dystopia not as a single doctrine but as a contested response to modernity's promises. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking both an introduction to dystopian literature and a wider historical frame for its canonical texts. By placing celebrated works in dialogue with overlooked precursors, it invites comparative study of form, ideology, and social anxiety. Readers will find a capacious, educational anthology whose convergences and disagreements sharpen the enduring question of how societies imagine freedom under pressure.
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GenreDystopia, Science Fiction
Length163 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1One (pt. 1)
26Chapter VI
2One (pt. 2)
27Chapter VII
3Two (pt. 1)
28Chapter VIII
4Two (pt. 2)
29Chapter IX
5Three (pt. 1)
30Chapter X
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6Three (pt. 2)
31Chapter XI
7Appendix
32Chapter XII
8Animal Farm (George Orwell)
33Chapter XIII
9Chapter I
34Chapter XIV
10Chapter II
35Chapter XV
11Chapter III
36Chapter XVI
12Chapter IV
37Chapter XVII
13Chapter V
38Chapter XVIII
14Chapter VI
39BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED (An Essay by Aldous Huxley)
15Chapter VII
40Foreword
16Chapter VIII
41I. Over-Population
17Chapter IX
42II. Quantity, Quality, Morality
18Chapter X
43III. Over-Organization
19Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
44IV. Propaganda in a Democratic Society
20BRAVE NEW WORLD: A Novel
45V. Propaganda Under a Dictatorship
21Chapter I
46VI. The Arts of Selling
22Chapter II
47VII. Brainwashing
23Chapter III
48VIII. Chemical Persuasion
24Chapter IV
49IX. Subconscious Persuasion
25Chapter V
50X. Hypnopaedia
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