Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
by Waugh, Evelyn
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in good condition. Red cloth boards good condition. Foxing on edges of pages and d/j back.
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in good condition. Red cloth boards good condition. Foxing on edges of pages and d/j back. Provenance: Barry Fearn FRCS, respected surgeon in Sussex (signed in front-free endpaper). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). A satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably high recidivism rate. Upon release, Plastic goes to work at a state-run euthanasia centre. The centres are not restricted to the terminally ill and are so popular that Plastic's sole responsibility is to stem ""the too eager rush"" of perfectly healthy but ""welfare weary"" citizens.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC11633
- Title
- Love among the Ruins: a romance of the near future
- Author
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in good condition. Red cloth boards good condition. Foxing on edges of pages and d/j back.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 52
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- dystopia, fiction, satire, Waugh
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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