7 似ている本： 最後の男

眠れる者の目覚め H. G. Wells · 1899 · ★ 3.4 · 262p · ≈ 8h · 骨がある A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal… 共通テーマ：Twenty-first century, British and irish fiction, English literature, Science Fiction

非商業的旅行者 Charles Dickens · 1776 · ★ 3.5 · 419p · ≈ 13h · 難解 A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches. 共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature

世界の主 Robert Hugh Benson · 1907 · 384p · ≈ 12h · 骨がある As creeping secularism and godless humanism triumph over traditional morality, it creates a world that has been divided into three powerblocks, where religious doctrine is not tolerated and euthanasia is practiced widely. In Britain, the Royal Family has been deposed; institutions of higher learning have been closed, and a politician intent on power in the name of peace is intent on the… 共通テーマ：End of the world, Science Fiction

黒衣 Wilkie Collins · 1881 · ★ 3.7 · 318p · ≈ 10h · 骨がある The Black Robe is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens. 共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature

幽霊屋敷 Charles Dickens · 1859 · ★ 3.1 The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal? 共通テーマ：British and irish fiction, English literature

2001年宇宙の旅 Arthur C. Clarke · 1968 · ★ 4.2 · 220p · ≈ 7h · 普通 A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at "the dawn of man" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient… 共通テーマ：Twenty-first century, Science Fiction

猫のゆりかご Kurt Vonnegut · 1963 · ★ 4.4 · 215p · ≈ 7h · 普通 Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's… 共通テーマ：End of the world, Science Fiction