TY - BOOK AU - Bramah,Ernest TI - The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War AV - PR PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Social classes -- Fiction KW - Dystopias -- Fiction KW - Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_the_League; Release date is 2010-11-30; Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War" by Ernest Bramah is a dystopian novel published in 1907. Written after Labour's electoral gains, it imagines a future where the Labour Party wins overwhelming power in Britain. An upper-class cabal secretly plots to overthrow the democratically elected government through economic sabotage and civil war. George Orwell credited the book with predicting the rise of Fascism while revealing the brutal measures the middle classes might condone when threatened with revolution. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34522 ER -