The Plato Papers: A Prophecy - Hardcover

Ackroyd, Peter

 
9780385497688: The Plato Papers: A Prophecy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385497687 ISBN 13: 9780385497688
Verlag: Doubleday, 2000

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At the turn of the thirty-eighth century, London's greatest orator, Plato, regularly delivers bravura public lectures on the long, tumultuous history of what is now a tranquil city. Plato focuses particularly on the obscured and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, which he calls the Age of Mouldwarp. Basing his work on an incomplete archaeological record, Plato pieces scraps of evidence together into a semicoherent whole. He lectures on the clown Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, and on the prolific author Charles D.'s greatest novel, The Origin of Species. And explores the confusing rituals of Mouldwarp, including the cult of webs and nets that covered and enslaved the population.
In approximately A.D. 2300, when the sun went out and the planet fell into a thousand years of darkness, the Age of Mouldwarp came to a close, and the dark Age of Witspell began. But this epoch holds little interest for Plato, and in the midst of his public performances he begins a dialogue with his soul that leads him closer to the citizens of Mouldwarp than any strict historical inquiry might allow.

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PETER ACKROYD is the award-winning author of the recent national bestseller <b>The Life of Thomas More</b>. His biographies--including T. S. Eliot, Dickens, and Blake--are as prized as his novels, which include <b>Chatterton</b>, <b>Hawksmoor</b>, and, most recently, <b>The Trial of Elizabeth Cree</b> and <b>Milton in America</b>. He lives in London, where he is at work on his next book, <b>London: The Biography</b>, a history of the city.

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d has written what we always knew that he alone could produce: a timeless literary masterpiece....This is a marvelous fable for our times. It is funny, wise, and strange...In the 18th century, Dean Swift cast a scorching searchlight on his own times by isolating their follies in imagined lands to which Gulliver made his imaginary travels. Ackroyd has pulled off a similar feat of travel in time and imagination." <br>--A.N. Wilson, <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>At the turn of the thirty-eighth century, London's greatest orator, Plato, regularly delivers bravura public lectures on the long, tumultuous history of what is now a tranquil city. Plato focuses particularly on the obscured and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, which he calls the Age of Mouldwarp. Basing his work on an incomplete archaeological record, Plato pieces scraps of evidence together into a semicoherent whole. He lectures on the clown Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece, <b>Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconsciou

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385497687
ISBN 13 
9780385497688
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
173
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