The Inner House

TitleThe Inner House
Year for Search1888
AuthorsBesant, Walter(1836-1901)
Date Published1888
PublisherJ.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall
Place PublishedBristol, Eng./London
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199).

Holding Institutions

LLL, PSt

Author Note

(1836-1901)

Full Text

1888 Besant, Walter (1836-1901). The Inner House. Bristol, Eng.: J.W. Arrowsmith/London: Simpkin, Marshall. Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199). LLL, PSt

Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.