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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 is a history book by Adam Tooze first published by Allen Lane in 2014. Reception [ edit ]
Plato makes reference to great floods in several of his dialogues, including Timaeus, Critias, and Laws.In Timaeus (22) and in Critias (111–112) he describes the "great deluge of all", specifying the one survived by Deucalion and Pyrrha, as having been preceded by 9,000 years of history before the time of Solon, during the 10th millennium BCE.
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself.
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His initial goal was to make the 10,000 most consulted books available to the public at little or no charge by the end of the 20th century. [ 7 ] On July 4, 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer ...
Deluge was Wright's first popular novel and granted him considerable financial success. [1] Storm Jameson praised Deluge on its original publication in the magazine London Calling, comparing Deluge to Cicely Hamilton's post-holocaust novel Theodore Savage. [4] Edward Shanks, reviewing Deluge in the London Mercury, also lauded the book. [4]
His second novel The Deluge is a dystopian epic about climate change spanning the years 2013 through to the 2030s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The New York Times review said of it that the "dystopia is realistic and nuanced, grim but playful, setting Markley’s book apart from the tsunami of recent climate-change literature."
Deluge, a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright; Deluge, a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough; Le Déluge, a fictional work by J. M. G. Le Clézio. The Deluge, a 2014 book by Adam Tooze; The Deluge, Potop, an 1886 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about the historical event