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Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752326123
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Secret of the League by Ernest Bramah
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473378885
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League - The Story of a Social War written by Ernest Bramah and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Secret of the League' is a dystopian novel that tells the story of a government overthrown by the upper-classes. Ernest Bramah Smith was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780342707553
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293749593
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Bramah Ernest ?
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318949748
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (497 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Bramah Ernest ? and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Total Pages : 287 pages
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Download or read book The Secret of the League written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Bramah
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ISBN 13 : 9781330656969
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War "I suppose I am old-fashioned" - there was a murmur of polite dissent from all the ladies present, except the one addressed - "Oh, I take it as a compliment nowadays, I assure you; but when I was a girl a young lady would have no more thought of flying than of" - she paused almost on a note of pained surprise at finding the familiar comparison of a lifetime cut off - "well, of standing on her head." "No," replied the young lady in point, with the unfeeling candour that marked the youthful spirit of the age, "because it wasn't invented. But you went bicycling, and your mothers were very shocked at first." "I hardly think that you can say that, Miss Lisle," remarked another of the matrons, "because I can remember that more than twenty years ago one used to see quite elderly ladies bicycling." "After the others had lived all the ridicule down," retorted Miss Lisle scornfully. "Oh yes; I quite expect that in a few more years you will see quite elderly ladies flying." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ernest Bramah
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Download or read book The secret of the league written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : War College Series
ISBN 13 : 9781298474841
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535320856
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret of the League is a 1907 dystopian novel by Ernest Bramah, which describes the overthrow of a democratically-elected British Labour Party Government through a carefully prepared plot by members of the upper classes, and depicts such an overthrow as being a positive and desirable outcome. George Orwell credited the book with having given a considerably accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, and also with reflecting "the mentality of the middle classes" and the brutal measures which members of these classes might condone or actively support, should they feel threatened with a revolution -"even such a decent and kindly writer as Ernest Bramah," in Orwell's words The book was written in the aftermath of the 1906 elections in which the Labour Party, formed just seven years before, gained 29 seats - a meteoric rise from the bare two seats it held before - and for the first time emerged as a serious force in British politics. The prospect of Labour gaining a majority, though still far-off, was no longer impossible - a prospect which some Britons, evidently including Bramah, found highly disagreeable. All the more so as the period following the elections was full of intensive labour disputes and militant strikes.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781725750210
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the League written by Ernest Bramah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret of the League The Story of a Social War ERNEST BRAMAH A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever plan they bring about a civil war in Britain by manipulating the coal strike with foreign help and plant a fascist regime in its place. What comes about is a total breakdown giving an accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, as George Orwell famously noted. Superficially the novel (also alternately known as What Might... We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Might Have Been written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293863787
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (637 download)
Download or read book What Might Have Been written by Ernest Bramah and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ What Might Have Been: The Story Of A Social War Ernest Bramah J. Murray, 1907
Author : Ernest Bramah,
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978231627
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Secret of the League, written by Ernest Bramah, and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Secret of the League' is one of the less well-known of Ernest Bramah's books. It is a dystopian novel, bordering on sci-fi, in which England has overwhelmingly voted in a socialist government intent on heavily taxing and regulating British industry and wealthy individuals, and in developing programs to favor working class people, especially union members, by raising wages and limiting work hours/day. As a result of the costs of these programs, government finances are strained, and this leads to ever higher taxes and regulations. A counter-revolution is begun to turn back the clock in order to again favor the rich and middle class at the expense of the working class in the belief that this is the best approach to a well-functioning society. This book apparently influenced Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty Four'. The book was originally published under the title 'What Might Have Been' in 1907 and was retitled in the 1909 edition.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Collected Works of Ernest Bramah written by Ernest Bramah and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah's detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood and his humorous works with Jerome K Jerome. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, The Secret of the League, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Contents: Max Carrados The Coin of Dionysius The Knight's Cross Signal Problem The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite The Last Exploit Of Harry the Actor The Tilling Shaw Mystery The Comedy at Fountain Cottage The Game Played In the Dark The Wallet of Kai Lung The Transmutation of Ling The Story of Yung Chang The Probation of Sen Heng The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung The Confession of Kai Lung The Vengeance of Tung Fel The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker Kai Lung's Golden Hours: A Novel Other Novels The Mirror of Kong Ho The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191088617
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dystopia written by Gregory Claeys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this volume redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part One assesses the theory and prehistory of 'dystopia'. By contrast to utopia, conceived as promoting an ideal of friendship defined as 'enhanced sociability', dystopia is defined by estrangement, fear, and the proliferation of 'enemy' categories. A 'natural history' of dystopia thus concentrates upon the centrality of the passion or emotion of fear and hatred in modern despotisms. The work of Le Bon, Freud, and others is used to show how dystopian groups use such emotions. Utopia and dystopia are portrayed not as opposites, but as extremes on a spectrum of sociability, defined by a heightened form of group identity. The prehistory of the process whereby 'enemies' are demonised is explored from early conceptions of monstrosity through Christian conceptions of the devil and witchcraft, and the persecution of heresy. Part Two surveys the major dystopian moments in twentieth century despotisms, focussing in particular upon Nazi Germany, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The concentration here is upon the political religion hypothesis as a key explanation for the chief excesses of communism in particular. Part Three examines literary dystopias. It commences well before the usual starting-point in the secondary literature, in anti-Jacobin writings of the 1790s. Two chapters address the main twentieth-century texts usually studied as representative of the genre, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The remainder of the section examines the evolution of the genre in the second half of the twentieth century down to the present.
Author : Ernest Bramah
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230336466
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (364 download)
Download or read book What Might Have Been; the Story of a Social War written by Ernest Bramah and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V MISS LISLE TELLS A LONG POINTLESS STORY S1r John Hampden lived within a stone-throw of the Marble Arch; George Salt had established himself in Westminster; and about midway between the two, in the neighbourhood of what used to be Pall Mall, a convenient but quite unostentatious suite of offices had been taken and registered as the headquarters of the Unity League. The Unity League was a modern organisation that had come into existence suddenly, and with on great parade, within a week of that day when George Salt had forced Hampden to hear what he wished to say, a day now nearly two years ago. The name was simple and commonplace, and therefore it aroused neither curiosity nor suspicion; it was explained by the fact that it had only one object: "By constitutional means to obtain an adequate representation of the middle and upper classes in Parliament," a phrase rendered by the lighter-hearted members colloquially as "To kick out the Socs." The Government, quite content to govern constitutionally (in the wider sense) and to be attacked constitutionally (in the narrower sense), treated the existence of the Unity League as a playful ebullition on the part of THE UNITY LEAGUE 81 the milch sections of society, and raised the minimum income-tax to four and threepence as a sedative. At first the existence of the League met with very little response and no enthusiasm among those for whom it was intended. It had become an article of faith with the oppressed classes that no propagandism could ever restore an equitable balance of taxation. Every change must inevitably tend to be worse than the state before. To ask the working classes (the phrase lingered; by the demarcation of taxation it meant just what it had conventionally meant in our...
