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What Not (Paperback, New edition)
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What Not (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Handheld Classics, 7
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List price R389
Loot Price R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
You Save R53 (14%)
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What Not is Rose Macaulay's speculative novel of post-First World
War eugenics and newspaper manipulation that anticipated Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World by 14 years. Published in 1918, it was
hastily withdrawn due to a number of potentially libellous pages,
and was reissued in 1919. But by then it was quickly overshadowed
by Macaulay's next two novels, and never gained the attention it
deserved. What Not is a lost classic of feminist wit and protest at
social engineering, now republished with the suppressed pages
reinstated. Kitty Grammont and Nicholas Chester are in love, but
Kitty is certified as an A for breeding purposes, while politically
ambitious Chester has been uncertificated, and may not marry. But
why? There's nothing apparently wrong with him, he is admired in
his field, and is charming and decisive. Although Kitty wields
power as a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Brains, which
makes these classifications, she does not have the freedom to marry
who she wants. They ignore the restrictions, and carry on a
discreet affair. But it isn't discreet enough for the media: the
popular press, determined to smash the brutal regime of the
Ministry of Brains, has found out about Kitty and Chester, and
scents an opportunity for a scandalous exposure. The introduction
is by Sarah Lonsdale, senior lecturer in journalism at City
University London.
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