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Caesar's Column : A Story of the Twentieth Century / Ignatius Donnelly; Walter B. Rideout.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donnelly, Ignatius, author.
- Series:
- John Harvard Library
- The John Harvard Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems--Fiction.
- Social problems.
- Twentieth century--Fiction.
- Twentieth century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 1890 Dystopian Science Fiction, Alternate History CHAPTER I. THE GREAT CITY This book is a series of letters, from Gabriel Weltstein, in New York, to his brother, Heinrich Weltstein, in the State of Uganda, Africa.] NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 1988 My Dear Brother: Here I am, at last, in the great city. My eyes are weary with gazing, and my mouth speechless with admiration; but in my brain rings perpetually the thought: Wonderful --wonderful --most wonderful What an infinite thing is man, as revealed in the tremendous civilization he has built up These swarming, laborious, all-capable ants seem great enough to attack heaven itself, if they could but find a resting-place for their ladders. Who can fix a limit to the intelligence or the achievements of our species? But our admiration may be here, and our hearts elsewhere. And so from all this glory and splendor I turn back to the old homestead, amid the high mountain valleys of Africa; to the primitive, simple shepherd-life...
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY OF IGNATIUS DONNELLY'S LIFE
- To the Public
- Caesar's Column
- CHAPTER I THE GREAT CITY
- CHAPTER II. MY ADVENTURE
- CHAPTER III. THE BEGGAR'S HOME
- CHAPTER IV. THE UNDER-WORLD
- CHAPTER V. ESTELLA WASHINGTON
- CHAPTER VI. THE INTERVIEW
- CHAPTER VII. THE HIDING-PLACE
- CHAPTER VIII. THE BROTHERHOOD
- CHAPTER IX. THE POISONED KNIFE
- CHAPTER X. PREPARATIONS FOR TO-NIGHT
- CHAPTER XI. HOW THE WORLD CAME TO BE RUINED
- CHAPTER XII. GABRIEL'S UTOPIA
- CHAPTER XIII. THE COUNCIL OF THE OLIGARCHY
- CHAPTER XIV. THE SPY'S STORY
- CHAPTER XV. THE MASTER OF "THE DEMONS"
- CHAPTER XVI. GABRIEL'S FOLLY
- CHAPTER XVII. THE FLIGHT AND PURSUIT
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXECUTION
- CHAPTER XIX. THE MAMELUKES OF THE AIR
- CHAPTER XX. THE WORKIΝGMEN'S MEETING
- CHAPTER XXI. A SERMON OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- CHAPTER XXII. ESTELLA AND I
- CHAPTER XXIII. MAX'S STORY - THE SONGSTRESS
- CHAPTER XXIV. MAX'S STORY CONTINUED - THE JOURNEYMAN PRINTER
- CHAPTER XXV. MAX'S STORY CONTINUED - THE DARK SHADOW
- CHAPTER XXVI. MAX'S STORY CONTINUED - THE WIDOW AND HER SON
- CHAPTER XXVII. MAX'S STORY CONTINUED - THE BLACKSMITH SHOP
- CHAPTER XXVIII. MAX'S STORY CONCLUDED - THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS
- CHAPTER XXIX. ELYSIUM
- CHAPTER XXX. UPON THE HOUSE-TOP
- CHAPTER XXXI. " SHEOL"
- CHAPTER XXXII. THE RAT-TRAP
- CHAPTER XXXIII. "T H E OCEAN OVERPEERS ITS LIST"
- CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PRINCE GIVES HIS LAST BRIBE
- CHAPTER XXXV. THE LIBERATED PRISONER
- CHAPTER XXXVI. CAESAR ERECTS HIS MONUMENT
- CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SECOND DAY
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE FLIGHT
- CHAPTER XXXIX. EUROPE
- CHAPTER XL. THE GARDEN IN THE MOUNTAINS
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-86613-4
- OCLC:
- 1013946080
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