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Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future by Evelyn Waugh is a sad love story. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, lives in a world where inmates are treated better than the good people who live outside of prison.
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LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. A Romance of the Near Future. Hardcover – Import, January 1, 1953. "Love Among the Ruins is a satire set in a dystopian quasi-egalitarian Britain. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who at the beginning of the story is finishing a prison term for arson.
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11 de set. de 2019 · Love among the ruins : a romance of the near future. by. Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Publication date. 1953. Publisher. London : Chapman & Hall. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future presents the work of two social documentary photographers Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) and Bill Stephenson (b. 1955), who documented the first residents of Park Hill from 1961-65 and the last remaining residents of Park Hill’s sister building Hyde Park in 1988 – both landmark buildings which ...
A satire of a dystopian Britain. Miles Plastic burns down a house of corrections and, though imprisoned for arson, becomes a national hero. Upon release, Plastic goes to work at a...
In a future, dystopian Britain, Miles Plastic is in prison for arson. Which isn’t so bad, really – the prisons are actually quite nice. When he is released, he finds himself a nice,...
LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The Welfare State has become a reality and a generation has grown up with very faint memories of an earlier civilization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-395.
