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Overview
The Human Paradise (1930) is a scathingly sarcastic satire in which God offers to grant wishes expressed unanimously by the entirety of humankind. The wishes voiced are carefully extrapolated in such a way as to suggest that, however effective individuals might be at screwing up their wishes, a committee composed of the whole human race could do a far more comprehensive job.
An Isle of Amour (1921) is interesting addition to a sequence of French utopian novels that attempted to get to grips with the thorny question of how best to organize sexual relations in a utopia, and what the social consequences would be of instituting a system of "free love."
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- ISBN-13: 9781612276175
- ISBN-10: 1612276172
- Publisher: Hollywood Comics
- Publish Date: April 2017
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.58 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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