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From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the \"modern\" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.
At the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, is known for his lectures on the long, tumultuous history of his now tranquil city. Plato focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of Mouldwarp. His subjects include Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece \"Jokes and Their Relation to the Subconscious,\" and Charles D.'s greatest novel, \"The Origin of Species.\" He explores the rituals of Mouldwarp, and the later cult of webs and nets that enslaved the population. By the end of his lecture series, however, Plato has been drawn closer to the subject of his fascination than he could ever have anticipated. At once funny and erudite, The Plato Papers is a smart and entertaining look at how the future is imagined, the present absorbed, and the past misrepresented.
Editions of The Plato Papers
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781856197014
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780385497688
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780385497695
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780099289951
- EBook
- ISBN 9780307429209
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From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the \"modern\" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.
At the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, is known for his lectures on the long, tumultuous history of his now tranquil city. Plato focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of Mouldwarp. His subjects include Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece \"Jokes and Their Relation to the Subconscious,\" and Charles D.'s greatest novel, \"The Origin of Species.\" He explores the rituals of Mouldwarp, and the later cult of webs and nets that enslaved the population. By the end of his lecture series, however, Plato has been drawn closer to the subject of his fascination than he could ever have anticipated. At once funny and erudite, The Plato Papers is a smart and entertaining look at how the future is imagined, the present absorbed, and the past misrepresented.
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From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the \"modern\" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.
At the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, is known for his lectures on the long, tumultuous history of his now tranquil city. Plato focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of Mouldwarp. His subjects include Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece \"Jokes and Their Relation to the Subconscious,\" and Charles D.'s greatest novel, \"The Origin of Species.\" He explores the rituals of Mouldwarp, and the later cult of webs and nets that enslaved the population. By the end of his lecture series, however, Plato has been drawn closer to the subject of his fascination than he could ever have anticipated. At once funny and erudite, The Plato Papers is a smart and entertaining look at how the future is imagined, the present absorbed, and the past misrepresented.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Plato Papers?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Plato Papers?
Peter Ackroyd
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The Plato Papers is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781856197014) and hardcover(ISBN 9780385497688) and paperback(ISBN 9780385497695) and paperback(ISBN 9780099289951) and ebook(ISBN 9780307429209)
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