What Not: A Prophetic Comedy
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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 ...
Chapters (109)
- WHAT NOT
- A PROPHETIC COMEDY
- AUTHOR OF "NON-COMBATANTS," "THE MAKING OF A BIGOT," ETC. LONDON CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD. 1918
- TO CIVIL SERVANTS I HAVE KNOWN
- NOTE.
- APOLOGY
- CONTENTS
- WHAT NOT
- CHAPTER I
- THE MINISTRY
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- CHAPTER II
- LITTLE CHANTREYS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- CHAPTER III
- BRAINS SUNDAY
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- CHAPTER IV
- OUR WEEK
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- CHAPTER V
- THE EXPLANATION CAMPAIGN
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- CHAPTER VI
- THE SIMPLE HUMAN EMOTIONS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- CHAPTER VII
- THE BREAKING POINT
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- CHAPTER VIII
- ON FIXED HEARTS AND CHANGING SCENES
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- CHAPTER IX
- THE COMMON HERD
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- CHAPTER X
- A MINISTRY AT BAY
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- CHAPTER XI
- THE STORMING OF THE HOTEL
- 1
- 2
- 3
- CHAPTER XII
- DEBRIS
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- THE END
- NEW FICTION
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- THE ANCHOR. By M. T. H. Sadler.
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- IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE. By Mrs. George Wemyss.
- THE STARRY POOL and Other Tales. By Stephen G. Tallents.
- THE WANDERERS. By Mary Johnston.
- REMNANTS. By Desmond MacCarthy.
- BEYOND THE RHINE. Memories of Art and Life in Germany before the War. By Marc Henry.
- TRIVIA. By Logan Pearsall Smith.
- THE LAST OF THE ROMANOFS. By Charles Rivet (Petrograd Correspondent of the "Temps").
- ON THE EDGE OF THE WAR ZONE. By Mildred Aldrich, Author of "A Hilltop on the Marne."
- THE POT BOILS. A Novel. By M. Storm Jameson.
- THE SHIP OF DEATH. A Romance of the World-War. By Edward Stilgebauer, Author of "Love's Inferno."
- THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISHMAN. By W. L. George, New Edition with a New Preface.
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