The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000

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TitleThe Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000
Year for Search1914
AuthorsSinclair, Upton [Beall](1878-1968)
Volume / Edition3 vols. Little Blue Book 590-592.
Date Published1914/1924
PublisherHaldeman-Julius Co., 1924
Place PublishedGirard, KS
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.
Additional Publishers

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914).
Info Notes

Written in 1907 and, according to Sinclair, lost, but a copy of the play is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

Sinclair wrote a number of utopias; see 1903, 1907, 1928, 1933 (2), 1934, 1935 (2), 1936, 1948, and 1950 Sinclair.
Holding Institutions

DLC, L, PSt
Author Note

(1878-1968)
Full Text

1914 Sinclair, Upton [Beall] (1878-1968). The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000. 3 vols. Little Blue Book 590-592. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924. U.K. ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914). Written in 1907 and, according to Sinclair, lost, but a copy of the play is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. DLC, L, PSt

Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.