{ "item_title" : "The Machine Stops", "item_author" : [" E. M. Forster "], "item_description" : "This book edition of THE MACHINE STOPS has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Machine Stops describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is also made via a kind of machine with which people conduct their only activity: the sharing of ideas and what passes for knowledge. In such a suffocating atmosphere Kuno, a man dares to think and do the unmentionable, that is, question the omnipotence of the faulty machine God.... E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success and he was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/8/02/727/654/8027276543_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "4.10", "online_price" : "4.10", "our_price" : "4.10", "club_price" : "4.10", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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