THE LEAGUE OF BIG BROTHERS - 18 Dystopia Classics in One Volume

Eighteen Classic Visions of Surveillance, Social Engineering, and Resistance

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

• Publisher: e-artnow
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9788026874720
• Subtopic: Science Fiction

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.

Table of contents

• THE LEAGUE OF BIG BROTHERS - 18 Dystopia Classics in One Volume
• Table of Contents
• 1984 (George Orwell)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
• It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
• That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis)
• Iron Heel (Jack London)
• We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
• Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory)
• Lord of the World (Hugh Benson)
• When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells)
• The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
• The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells)
• Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly)
• The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah)
• City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings)
• Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton)
• The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens)
• The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope)