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McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco (his first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac."). His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he's courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work.
In 2003, a book of the best 500 ideas was published by John Wiley & Sons as The Big Idea Book. One idea published on Idea A Day is Flipside TV, a live TV review show in which a host and three guests watched television live as it happened and recommended to viewers what they could or should be watching on the other side. The TV show ran in the ...
Through the narrator's first-person account, we learn the story of the people and the events of iDEATH.The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and inBOIL, a rebellious man who has left iDEATH to live near a shunned area called the Forgotten Works, a huge trash heap where the remnants of a former civilization lie abandoned in great piles.
The idea was not original to Phelps; at least one earlier book, the anonymous Heaven Our Home, was advertising as early as 1863 about its vision of "a Social Heaven in which there will be the most Perfect Recognition, Intercourse, Fellowship, and Bliss. [8] and Andrew Billingsgate's 1839 novel The Private.
[85] He did not believe that book burning was an inevitable part of the future; he wanted to warn against its development. [85] In a later interview, when asked if he believes that teaching Fahrenheit 451 in schools will prevent his totalitarian [2] vision of the future, Bradbury replied in the negative. Rather, he states that education must be ...
The story follows English professor Adam Snell as he realizes that someone is trying to kill both him and his book, Sovrana Sostrata, a book about truth.As a metafiction work the novel parodies literary forms—each chapter is told in a different style ranging from traditional linear drama, to newspaper reports, to a playwright's script, to a carefully annotated scholarly work from the 19th ...
After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Picador, [4] it was reprinted as follows: Viking Books, USA, 2002 [5] Text Publishing, Australia, 2014 [6] Picador, UK, 2017 [1] The novel was also translated into Dutch and Danish in 2002, and German in 2008. [1]
In the not-so-distant future, the population of Earth has risen to 17 billion. To reduce overcrowding, the world government requires all citizens to take thrice-daily doses of a drug that numbs them from the waist down (thus depriving them of any pleasure from sexual intercourse), and also maintains a network of "Ethical Suicide" Parlors in which virginal female hostesses assist clients in ...