7 best short stories - Dystopia

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!


  1. La Guerre des mondes - Livre Audio

    H.G. Wells

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  2. 50 Chefs-D'œuvre Que Vous Devez Lire Avant De Mourir : Vol 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    Mark Twain, Stendhal, Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, René Descartes, Lewis Carroll, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Golden Deer, Alain-Fournier, Jules Amédée d'Aurevilly, Paul Bourget, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Pierre Corneille, Nikolai Gogol, Gustave Leroux, Marquis De Sade, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Daniel Lesueur, Marcel Proust, Edmond Rostand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Rodolphe Töpffer, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Voltaire, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola

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  3. World's Greatest Short Stories

    Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy De Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Jack London, E. M. Forster

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  4. L'Homme invisible

    H.G. Wells

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  5. La Machine à explorer le temps - Livre Audio

    H.G. Wells, Livres audio en français

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  6. 50 Chefs-D'œuvre Que Vous Devez Lire Avant De Mourir: Vol 2

    Honoré de Balzac, Alphonse Daudet, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Nikolai Gogol, Victor Hugo, Maurice Leblanc, Jack London, Madame de La Fayette, Guy De Maupassant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Michel de Montaigne, Golden Deer Classics

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  7. La Guerre des mondes : Un roman de science-fiction de H. G. Wells (texte intégral)

    H.G. Wells

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  8. L'Île du Docteur Moreau

    H.G. Wells

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  9. The Essential Classics Collection : 1984; Great Expectations; The Brothers Karamazov; Pride and Prejudice; & The War of the Worlds

    George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, H.G. Wells

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  10. A Modern Utopia : H.G. Wells' Visionary Blueprint of a Perfect World

    H.G. Wells, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

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  11. The Magic Shop

    H.G. Wells

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  12. 60 Gothic Classics : Exploring the Haunting Depths of Classic Gothic Literature

    Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anna Katharine Green, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, John Meade Falkner, George Eliot, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Marsh, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, H.G. Wells, W. Jacobs, H.P. Lovecraft, William Thomas Beckford, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Fitz-James O’Brien, Eliza Parsons

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  1. 7 best short stories - Boxing

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Ring Lardner, August Nemo

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  2. 7 best short stories - Ghost Stories

    Sheridan Le Fanu, Saki (H.H. Munro), Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, O.Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo

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  3. 7 best short stories - Russian Authors

    Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, August Nemo

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  4. 7 best short stories - Halloween

    W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Leonid Andreyev, August Nemo

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  5. 7 best short stories - Christmas

    Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Mary E. Freeman, Henry van Dyke, Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, O.Henry, August Nemo

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  6. 7 best short stories - Morality Tales

    Stephen Leacock, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Kate Chopin, Guy De Maupassant, Matsuo Bashō, August Nemo

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  7. 7 best short stories - Thanksgiving Day

    Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Freeman, William Dean Howells, O.Henry, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis K. Ball, Edward Payson Roe, August Nemo

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  8. 7 best short stories - American Civil War

    Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Thomas Nelson Page, August Nemo

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  9. 7 best short stories - World War I

    Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Nemo

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  10. 7 best short stories - Feminist Fiction

    August Nemo, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Edith Nesbit

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  11. 7 best short stories - Feel-Good Stories

    George Ade, H.G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, T. S. Arthur, Oscar Wilde, O.Henry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, August Nemo

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  12. 7 best short stories - Victorian Romance

    William Schwenck Gilbert, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, George Moore, August Nemo

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