Scarlet Empire by David Parry 1906 Antique Book Dystopian Science Fiction Novel store Atlantis
Scarlet Empire by David Parry 1906 Antique Book Dystopian Science Fiction Novel store Atlantis, The Scarlet Empire by David M Parry Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1906Hardcover in red cloth decorated in black with.
Product code: Scarlet Empire by David Parry 1906 Antique Book Dystopian Science Fiction Novel store Atlantis
The Scarlet Empire, by David M. Parry. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906.
Hardcover in red cloth decorated in black with gilt titles, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 400 pages, 10 red tinted illustrations by Hermann C. Wall. Boards are edge worn with light bump at top front corner, store spine a little sun faded, internally clean and sound.
David MacLean Parry's novel was a scathing satire on socialist philosophy. This early science fiction novel uses Atlantis to represent a corrupt authoritarian dystopia. It was part of a major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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