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367 p. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 06-36594 ; LC: PZ3.D7188; Dewey: 813.49 ; OCLC: 3596089 ; blue cloth with gold lettering and design ; repair to front hinge ; torn flyleaf ; heavy foxing ; nick to top of spine ; Published in 1890, Caesar's Column is an account of a trip to New York City in 1988 by a visitor from the Swiss colony of Uganda. The great metropolis dazzles with its futuristic technology, but its ostentatious wealth and luxury mask the brutal repression of the laboring classes by their rich bosses. The workers, aided by international terrorists [!], stage a violent revolt and the narrator flees the devastated city by airship to found an agrarian utopia in Africa. Fueled by outrage at social conditions, Caesar's Column was the first major dystopian novel in the English language. Its author, Ignatius Donnelly, was the most famous-and controversial-American populist politician of the day, and his book became a huge bestseller. --Wesleyan University Press ; "An apocalyptic vision conceived in urgency and despair by one of the most fascinating mavericks in American political history, the novel accords more closely with the anxious temper of our own times than other anticipatory works that emerged from the same historical moment. For all its faults, Caesar's Column remains surprisingly readable, even gripping, today. It is a milestone in the formative stage of modern science fiction."--Nicholas Ruddick ; G. Seller Inventory # 006785
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