About the Book
Note! This novel was originally published under the pseudonym of Murray Constantine.
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, this novel projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. They are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. Not even the memory of culture remains. The plot centers on a "misfit" who asks, as readers must, "How could this have happened?"
Ann J. Lane calls the novel a "brilliant, chilling dystopia."
"This is a powerful, haunting vision of the inner and outer worlds of male violence." - Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933
