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Theodore Savage by Cicely Hamilton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Theodore Savage about?

A civil servant is reduced to primitive living after a war destroys modern civilization.Theodore Savage was first published in 1922.This SF novel, Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future (1922; rev vt Lest Ye Die 1928), bitterly depicts a Future War which destroys London and escalates towards a full-scale Holocaust, in whose aftermath the people of the UK, driven out of the remaining cities, revert to superstitious barbarism; the revised version presents a more "savage" Theodore Savage, whose increased coldness to the woman he loves emphasizes the dispassionate long view characteristic of the Scientific Romance, making some reference to the use of gas in warfare, and eventually comparing the ruins of previous civilizations with the ruins created in his own time (see Ruins and Futurity), and concluding that human history on the planet is cyclical. Savage himself lives to a great age in a small village full of savages who think of pre-collapse artefacts as obscene, a trope typical of many subsequent Ruined Earth novels.Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggl

Who reads Theodore Savage?

Author

Cicely Hamilton

Publisher

Standard Ebooks

Published

2023

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Fiction