The Great War Syndicate

TitleThe Great War Syndicate
Year for Search1889
AuthorsStockton, Frank R[ichard](1834-1902)
Date Published1889
PublisherP.F. Collier
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1899. Rpt. in The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. Volume 6 The Great Syndicate, Etc. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), 3-128; and separately Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970.

Holding Institutions

HRC, L, MoU-St, PSt, W3,5239

Author Note

(1834-1902)

Full Text

1889 Stockton, Frank R[ichard] (1834-1902). The Great War Syndicate. New York: P.F. Collier. HRC, L, MoU-St, PSt, W3,5239

Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.