Meccania: The Super-State (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Owen Gregory

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ISBN 10 : 133050514X ISBN 13 : 9781330505144

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Step inside a thought-provoking look at a fully organized, one-party state where every facet of life is planned and supervised.

Meccania: The Super-State follows a foreign observer who travels through a nation where the government merges with daily life. The story asks big questions about power, freedom, and the price of security as a highly regimented society showcases its precision and its limits. Readers glimpse a world where bureaucrats, soldiers, and cultural rituals shape what people can do, think, and even read.

Through vivid scenes of industry, culture, and public life, the narrative explores how a “perfect” state might operate—and what might be lost in pursuit of order. It presents a careful, critical view of a society that values efficiency and control, while hinting at the human costs of such a system.

• Experience a society with centralized authority and rules that touch everyday choices and habits.


• See how industry, media, and education are organized for maximum efficiency.


• Meet the key characters who reveal different perspectives on authority and liberty.


• Consider the tension between national strength and personal freedom through the eyes of an informed observer.

Ideal for readers curious about political philosophy, dystopian fiction, and the idea of a state with limitless powers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Meccania: The Super-State

As this book is little more than a transcript of a document originally written in the form of a journal by a man who, until about a year ago, was an entire stranger to me, and as the document itself contains not a few statements which make large demands upon the credulity of the average reader, it seems necessary to offer some explanation regarding both the journal and its author, Mr. Ming - or, to give him his full name, Ming Yuen-hwuy.

If I were able to go bail for Mr. Ming and assure the British Public that he was an entirely credible and impartial witness, the book might have stood on the same foundation as other volumes of 'revelations' concerning a country with which Englishmen are still insufficiently acquainted. But I cannot go bail for Mr. Ming.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

As this book is little more than a transcript of a document originally written in the form of a journal by a man who, until about a year ago, was an entire stranger to me, and as the document itself contains not a few statements which make large demands upon the credulity of the average reader, it seems necessary to offer some explanation regarding both the journal and its author, Mr. Ming—or, to give him his full name, Ming Yuen-hwuy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133050514X
• ISBN 13: 9781330505144
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 354
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