TY - BOOK AU - Donnelly,Ignatius TI - Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century AV - PS PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction KW - Social problems -- Fiction KW - Dystopias -- Fiction KW - Twentieth century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_Column; Release date is 2004-02-01; Produced by Norm Wolcott; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century" by Ignatius Donnelly is a novel published in 1890. Set in 1988 New York, it follows a wool merchant from Uganda who encounters a brutal capitalist oligarchy where technological marvels mask extreme oppression. When he witnesses a confrontation between rich and poor, he's drawn into an underground resistance movement. The story blends dystopian speculation with political commentary and romance, building toward a violent rebellion that threatens to consume the entire city in flames. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5155 ER -