by Belloc · Cluster: Satirical Novel · Politics and Finance · Edwardian England
Abstract
A near-future political satire set in a 1960 of Socialist and Anarchist parties, skewering the corrupt marriage of government and finance. Postmaster-General Wilfrid Halterton nervously signs a rigged television-monopoly contract for the financier James McAuley, trading a public charter for his own promised place in the City.
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Readability (prose)-113.4 Flesch ease68 FK grade75.6 Fog32% complex156.5 words/sent
Connections
Forms & Genres: Novel, Satire Themes & Concepts: Power and Corruption, Money and Avarice, Hypocrisy, Democracy, Capitalism, Satire of Society, Economics Motifs: Money and Gold, Letters and Writing, Machine Settings: London Archetypes: Corrupt Official Topoi: World Upside Down