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ONE (VALANCOURT 20TH CENTURY CLASSICS) IBD

DAVID KARP
VALANCOURT BOOKS
09 / 2017
9781943910847
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In a dateless future, a seemingly benevolent totalitarian State has eliminated poverty, crime, war, and religious intolerance and brought the happiness of conformity to its people. Professor Burden thinks he too is a loyal citizen, but the Department of Internal Examination discovers that he secretly values his individuality. Believing Burden to be a threat to the continued existence of the State, an examiner named Lark decides to cure him of his heresy and return him to being a normal, productive member of society&mdash,by persuasion if possible, but by complete obliteration of his identity if necessary.áFirst published in 1953, One earned critical comparisons to the great dystopian novels of Orwell and Huxley. It is both a gripping psychological thriller and an indictment of totalitarianism which, as Philip Boakes argues in the new introduction to this edition, is more relevant than ever.&ldquo,The publishers have bracketed this novel with Darkness at Noon, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, which I at first thought presumptuous, but now, after reading it, I am inclined to agree.&rdquo, -áCyril Connolly, The Sunday Times&ldquo,[P]erhaps even more terrifying [than Orwell&rsquo,s 1984].&rdquo, -áSaturday Review&ldquo,A thriller, though physical danger is rarely present, a detective story without a detective, a vibrant chase without physical movement, and a restatement of an important ethical point which probably badly needs to be restated now. Compared to it, most of the Utopian writing of this century ... is mere science fiction.&rdquo, -áThe New York Times

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