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7 best short stories - Dystopia

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Dystopian fiction- sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature - is the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos.

The critic August Nemo selected seven classic tales of dystopian scenarios.

- The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

- The Answer by H. Beam Piper

- The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel

- The Empire of the Ants by H.G. Wells

- In The Year 2889 by Jules Verne

- The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!

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  2. Stjärnan

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  4. The Invisible Man

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  7. 100 Abenteuer-Meisterwerke : Der Seewolf, 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer, Der letzte Mohikaner, Die drei Musketiere, Winnetou, Die Schatzinsel

    Jack London, Karl May, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Alexandre Dumas, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Jonathan Swift, Homer, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Max Brand, Emilio Salgari, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Carlo Collodi, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Sophie Wörishöffer, Amalie Schoppe, Joseph Conrad, Bram Stoker, Pierre Loti, Friedrich Wilhelm Mader, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Gerhart Hauptmann, Robert Kraft, Lew Wallace, Maurice Leblanc, Zane Grey, Walther Kabel, Georg Engel, John Retcliffe, Bret Harte, Johannes Kaltenboeck, Kurt Floericke, Ann Stephens, Franz Treller, Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, Jakob Wassermann, Miguel de Cervantes, Heinrich Zschokke, James Morier, Frederick Marryat

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    Homer, Sun Tzu, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jane Austen, Nikolai Gogol, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, George Orwell

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  9. Library of Masterpieces - 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

    illiam Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Louisa May Alcott, Miguel de Cervantes, John Milton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kenneth Grahame, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Lowry, Ford Madox Ford, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath, Carson McCullers, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Stendhal, Alexandre Dumas, Henrik Ibsen, Rudyard Kipling, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò Machiavelli

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  10. Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

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  11. The Time Machine + The Invisible Man + The War of the Worlds : 3 Unabridged Science Fiction Classics

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  12. Ann Veronica (Unabridged) : A Feminist Classic

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