6 livres semblables à La description d'un nouveau monde
La Race future
The Coming Race, an early science-fiction work, with its superman race the Vril-ya descended from the same ancestors as the great Aryan family, from which in varied streams has flowed the dominant civilization of the world spawned a occult secret society known as the Vril Society or Luminous Lodge - its philosphy and swastika symbol profoundly influenced the Nazis. Please Note: This book has…
Thèmes communs : Utopias, Philosophy, Science Fiction
La Romance de Blithedale
A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual…
Thèmes communs : Utopias, Sources, History
Les jours de la comète
H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world. In the build-up to a great war, poor student William Leadford struggles against the harsh conditions the lower-class live under. He also falls in love with a middle-class girl named Nettie. But when he discovers that Nettie has…
Thèmes communs : Utopias, Science Fiction
Nouvelles de nulle part
"Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris's most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature views on art, work, community, family, and the nature and structure of the ideal society. A utopian narrative of a future society, it is also an immensely entertaining novel.".
"This Broadview edition includes a wide variety of contextualizing…
Thèmes communs : Utopias, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Vies
Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome.
Thèmes communs : Sources, Early works to 1800, Philosophy, History
Voyage au centre de la Terre
Three explorers descend to the center of the earth, where they encounter tumultuous storms, wild prehistoric animals, and fierce cavemen.
Thèmes communs : Imaginary Voyages, Science Fiction