The Conquered Place: A Novel of Tomorrow

Hardcover, First Edition 1954 G. P. Putnam's Sons 313 pages. Very Good+, in a Good+ DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to blue cloth boards with aquamarine titles - corners sharp with a touch of wear to tips. Moderate shelf/edge wear and chipping to scarce DJ, front panel has a tape repaired tear by the previous owner on the outside (Thank God he used archival tape), DJ now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are bright, clean and crisp. not as terrifying as Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four although as grim and definitely tougher, here again is the slave state, the perverted toughness of the conquered, the subjugation by curfew, executions, secret police which is fought by the underground with murder. A first novel which explores the atmosphere of unwilling submission, this provides an adventure frame for political and psychological discussion. Stern. ("An exceptionally detailed and well-written thriller depicting the resistance against Communist invaders occupying the conquered eastern half of the United States." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 301. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 105. Reginald 12919.)Handsome copy in scarce DJ. LOC SSS-23

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Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year: 1954-01-01

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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