Title: Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Title Record # 939702
Author: Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D.
Date: 1890-00-00
Variant Title of: Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (by Ignatius Donnelly) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Looking Backward Sequel by Other Hands (1)
Author: Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D.
Date: 1890-00-00
Variant Title of: Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (by Ignatius Donnelly) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: Reviews in US newspapers 1890, none brief:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch -04-13 p32 (long)
Chicago Tribune -04-19 p13
San Francisco Chronicle -04-27 p7 ("Literary Notes" -12-21 identifies the writer as Donnelly)
N-Y Tribune -06-27 p8 (as 12mo)
All mention Edward Bellamy Looking Backward (1888), commonly as the optimistic polar opposite to pessimistic Caesar's Column. Chi. Tribune notes this the first of the Looking Backward imitators.
Synopsis: "A series of letters from Gabriel Weltstein in New York to his brother Heinrich Weltstein in the State of Uganda in Africa." Beginning September 1988, Gabriel describes the great achievements of modern civilization, good and bad, and its destruction.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1890-04-13 p32 "Destruction is King: A Pessimistic View of the Twentieth Century Civilization"
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Current Tags: Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), cosy catastrophe (1), Looking Backward Sequel by Other Hands (1)
Publications
| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century | 1890-00-00 | Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. | F. J. Schulte and Co. | $1.25?$: US dollar |
367 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
| Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century | 1891-00-00 | Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. | Frederick Warne | 216 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||||
| Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century | 2003-11-00 | Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. | Wesleyan University Press (Early Classics of Science Fiction) | 0-8195-6666-7 | $22.95?$: US dollar |
lv+ 275 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Ean Taylor |  |
| Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century | 2003-11-00 | Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. | Wesleyan University Press (Early Classics of Science Fiction) | 0-8195-6665-9 | $65.00?$: US dollar |
1v+ 275 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel |