Scarlet Empire by retailer David Parry 1906 Antique Book Dystopian Science Fiction Novel Atlantis

The Scarlet Empire, by David M. Parry. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906.

Hardcover in red cloth decorated in black with gilt titles, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 400 pages, 10 red tinted illustrations by Hermann C. Wall. Boards are edge worn with light bump at retailer top front corner, spine a little sun faded, internally clean and sound.

David MacLean Parry's novel was a scathing satire on socialist philosophy. This early science fiction novel uses Atlantis to represent a corrupt authoritarian dystopia. It was part of a major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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