A Story of the Days to Come

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About A Story of the Days to Come

"A Story of the Days to Come" is a novella by H. G. Wells. It depicts lovers in a dystopian future in 22nd century London and explores the implications of excessive urbanization, class warfare, and advances in the technology of medicine, communication, transportation, and agriculture. The imagined 22nd century London has over 30 million people. The lower classes live in subterranean dwellings while the middle and upper classes live in skyscrapers. Dystopian Classic Editions publishes works of dystopian and utopian literature that have survived through the generations and been recognized as classics. A dystopian society is an imagined society in which the people are oppressed, however the government propagandizes the society as being a utopia or a perfect society. Typical themes in dystopian literature include public mistrust, police states, and overall unpleasantness for the citizens. Authors of dystopian works strive to present a worst-case scenario and negative depiction of the way things are in the story so as to make a criticism about a current situation in society and to call for a change. Each Dystopian Classic Edition selected for publication presents such a story.

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