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xxvi, 196 pages ; 22 cm |
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Summary |
"In 1907, Upton Sinclair looked forward 93 years and imagined the year 2000, when capitalism would find its zenith with the construction of The Pleasure Palace, a glittering 100-story-high structure in the middle of New York's Central Park. During the grand opening of the towering building, a scientific experiment with radiumite explodes, killing everybody throughout the world except eleven people at the Pleasure Palace." |
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"These survivors struggle to rebuild their lives by creating a new capitalistic society. After that fails, along with several other efforts, they create a utopian society on the lush grounds of a grand country estate in the Pocantico Hills above the Hudson River, embodying Sinclair's life-long vision of "The Cooperative Commonwealth.""--Jacket. |
Subject |
Utopias -- Fiction.
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Two thousand, A.D -- Fiction.
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End of the world -- Fiction.
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Millennium (Eschatology) -- Fiction.
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End of the world. (OCoLC)fst00909634
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Millennium (Eschatology) (OCoLC)fst01021776
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Two thousand, A.D. (OCoLC)fst01159884
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Utopias. (OCoLC)fst01163359
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Utopian fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Utopian fiction.
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Science fiction.
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ISBN |
1583220216 (pbk.) |
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9781583220214 (pbk.) |
Standard No. |
99821654293 |
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