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Adam Sims brings us Looking Backward: 2000–1887, Edward Bellamy’s dynamic rejection of industrial capitalism. A depiction of a socialist utopia, the novel follows aristocrat Julian West, who falls into a hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. We also have Three Tales, Gustave Flaubert’s rich and compelling collection of short stories, read by Andrew Wincott, as well as Three Lives, Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych, read by Laurel Lefkow and Trei Taylor.

Published in 1888 to immediate popularity (it was the second-ever novel to sell over one million copies in the United States), Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a dynamic rejection…

Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In ‘A Simple Heart’ (the inspiration for…

Gertrude Stein’s pioneering triptych Three Lives portrays the lives of three working-class women in the fictional American town of Bridgepoint (Baltimore). A progenitor of…

The NAB Blog: The Poetic Edda – Norse Myth and Heroism

Norse myth figures largely in Western culture and this has been particularly apparent in recent decades. Tolkien drew extensively on this tradition in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as did his friend C.S. Lewis, albeit to …

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