What Not by Rose Macaulay

  •
1 1

Click to look inside

What Not by Rose Macaulay

Checking stock...
Checking stock...

Part of Mit Press Radium Age series

Proud to be B-Corp

Our business meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. In short, we care about people and the planet.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free delivery in Australia
  • Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
  • 100% recyclable packaging
  • Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
  • Buy-back with Ziffit

What Not by Rose Macaulay

An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England.

In a near-future England, a new government entity-the Ministry of Brains-attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares author Rose Macaulay's own ambivalent attitude, gets involved in the Ministry's propaganda efforts, which the novel details with an entertaining thoroughness. (The alphabetical caste system dreamed up by Macaulay for her nightmare world would directly influence Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopia Brave New World.) But when Kitty falls in love with the Minister for Brains, a man whose genetic shortcomings make a union with her impossible, their illicit affair threatens to topple the government. Because it ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, the planned 1918 publication of What Not was delayed until after the end of World War I.

You might also like

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780262544306
ISBN 10 026254430X
Title What Not
Author Rose Macaulay
Series Mit Press Radium Age
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher MIT Press Ltd
Year published 2022-10-04
Number of pages 248
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.