What Not
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What Not

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About this book

In a near-future England, a new government entity—the Ministry of Brains—attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares the author's own ambivalent attitude to life, gets involved in the Ministry's propaganda efforts, which are detailed with an entertaining thoroughness. However, when Kitty falls in love with the Minister for Brains, a man whose genetic shortcomings make a union with her impossible, their illicit affair threatens to topple the government. Because it ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, the planned 1918 publication of What Not, whose alphabetical caste system would directly influence Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopia Brave New World, was delayed until after the end of World War I.

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Information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9780262371155
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Foreword
  4. Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions
  5. Note
  6. Apology
  7. I. The Ministry
  8. II. Little Chantreys
  9. III. Brains Sunday
  10. IV. Our Week
  11. V. The Explanation Campaign
  12. VI. The Simple Human Emotions
  13. VII. The Breaking Point
  14. VIII. On Fixed Hearts and Changing Scenes
  15. IX. The Common Herd
  16. X. A Ministry at Bay
  17. XI. The Storming of the Hotel
  18. XII. Debris