The Red Napoleon (Lost American Fiction) - Hardcover

Gibbons, Floyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809307642 ISBN 13: 9780809307647

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976

Synopsis

Published in 1929,this classic social-science-fiction novel is a tale of the future in which we are now living: the angry rise of the Third World, supported by communism and desperately resisted by capitalist countries.

The story closes in what is now the faintly distant past, 1941, when at the novel’s dramatic climax North America wins a great sea battle in the Caribbean, defeating the world-conquering hordes of the Mongol Karakhan, the “Red Napoleon,” which have invaded Canada and penetrated the Eastern seaboard of the United States.

Gibbons’s prophetic view includes the beginning of the Second World War with a lightning thrust into Poland, the unification of China, worldwide depres­sion, and the astonishing prediction of the rise of the Third World and the con­flict over white supremacy.

In a brilliant Afterword to this new edition, John Gardner notes that time has proven Gibbons right, that this is a book “to bring above-ground into light”; itis, he states, a “landmark that slipped by unnoticed.”

About this title

About the Author

Floyd Phillip Gibbons died in 1939.He was an internationally famous War Correspondent for the ChicagoTribune.

John Gardner is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Car­bondale and a best-selling novelist. His most recent book is The King’s Indian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809307642
• ISBN 13: 9780809307647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504