Earth's Holocaust (1844) [Short Story]
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The inhabitants of earth decide to rid themselves of all the refuse of their civilization by means of a general bonfire, but they cannot change human nature.
Original title: Earth's Holocaust
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Social Criticism
Fiction→ Fantasy→ Allegorical And Bangsian
This work is a subwork of the following works : Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) [Collection] Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book of Fantasy, the (1940) [Anthology] Authors: Lewis Carroll
, Edgar Allan Poe
, Rudyard Kipling
, Ambrose Bierce
, Ray Bradbury
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Franz Kafka
, James Joyce
, Mary Shelley
, Leo Tolstoy
, Edith Wharton
, Oscar Wilde
, William Butler Yeats
, Voltaire
, Lord Dunsany
, Arthur Machen
, Olaf Stapledon
, J. G. Ballard
, Julio Cortázar
, Jorge Luis Borges
, G. K. Chesterton
, Thomas Carlyle
, Guy de Maupassant
, Francois Rabelais
, Evelyn Waugh
, Petronius Arbiter
, Saki
, B. Traven
, W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Perowne
, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
, Edward Lucas White
, Ryunosuke Akutagawa
, Walter de la Mare
, Max Beerbohm
, I. A. Ireland
, May Sinclair
, Jean Cocteau
, Juan Manuel
, Silvina Ocampo
, Léon Bloy
, Giovanni Papini
, Adolfo Bioy Casares
, Leonid Andreyev
, John Aubrey
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
, Delia Ingenieros
, Ah'med Ech Chiruani
, Martin Buber
, Arturo Cancela
, Pilar de Lusarreta
, Chuang Tzu
, Santiago Dabove
, Alexandra David-Neel
, Macedonio Fernández
, James George Frazer
, Elena Garro
, Herbert A. Giles
, Leopoldo Lugones
, Edwin Morgan
, H. A. Murena
, Niu Chiao
, Carlos Peralta
, Manuel Peyrou
, P'u Sung Ling
, W. W. Skeat
, Emanuel Swedenborg
, Juan Rudolfo Wilcock
, Richard Wilhelm
, G. Willoughby-Meade
, Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
, Auguste Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
, Wu Ch'Eng En
, José Zorrilla
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