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Before women were given the right to vote, this novel prophesied women presidents, prime ministers, and leaders of the opposition. Before the existence of the Labor Party in New Zealand it advocated social welfare and subsidized housing, and before the computer and e-mail, it foresaw a noiseless telegraph. Written by Sir Julius Vogel, New Zealand's Prime Minister in the 1870s, Anno Domini 2000 came closer to the mark than George Orwell's 1984.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
George Claude Sonsius in his early youth appeared to have before him a fair, prosperous future.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
There would still be much variety of human woe and joy; and though the lowest rung of the ladder would not descend to the present abysmal depth of destitution and degradation, the intensely comprehensive line of the poet would continue as monumental as ever,— "The meanest hind in misery's sad train still looks beneath him."
Before women were given the right to vote, this novel prophesied women presidents, prime ministers, and leaders of the opposition. Before the existence of the Labor Party in New Zealand it advocated social welfare and subsidized housing, and before the computer and e-mail, it foresaw a noiseless telegraph. Written by Sir Julius Vogel, New Zealand's Prime Minister in the 1870s, Anno Domini 2000 came closer to the mark than George Orwell's 1984.
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