TY - ABST T1 - "John Smith" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Ambrose Gwinett] [Bierce] (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free.

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Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 88-90.

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Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." 

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