Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Ignatius Donnelly
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
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Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century is a novel by Ignatius Donnelly, famous as the author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Caesar's Column was published pseudonymously in 1890. The book has been variously categorized as science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopian fiction, and/or apocalyptic fiction; one critic has termed it an "Apocalyptic Utopia."
The book is also a political novel, and a romance. It was a popular success as well, selling 60,000 copies upon its initial publication. Its sales eventually comprised 250,000 copies. Donnelly's novel was one element of the great wave of utopian and dystopian literature during the later nineteenth century and the early twentieth, exemplified by works like Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Jack London's The Iron Heel.

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CÆSAR'S COLUMN
To the Public
CHAPTER I
THE GREAT CITY
CHAPTER II.
MY ADVENTURE
CHAPTER III.
THE BEGGAR'S HOME
CHAPTER IV.
THE UNDER-WORLD
CHAPTER V.
ESTELLA WASHINGTON
CHAPTER VI.
THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER VII.
THE HIDING-PLACE
CHAPTER VIII.
THE BROTHERHOOD
CHAPTER IX.
THE POISONED KNIFE
CHAPTER X.
PREPARATIONS FOR TO-NIGHT
CHAPTER XI.
HOW THE WORLD CAME TO BE RUINED
CHAPTER XII.
GABRIEL'S UTOPIA
CHAPTER XIII.
THE COUNCIL OF THE OLIGARCHY
CHAPTER XIV.
THE SPY'S STORY
CHAPTER XV.
THE MASTER OF "THE DEMONS"
CHAPTER XVI.
GABRIEL'S FOLLY
CHAPTER XVII.
THE FLIGHT AND PURSUIT
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE EXECUTION
CHAPTER XIX.
THE MAMELUKES OF THE AIR
CHAPTER XX.
THE WORKINGMEN'S MEETING
CHAPTER XXI.
A SERMON OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
CHAPTER XXII.
ESTELLA AND I
CHAPTER XXIII.
MAX'S STORY-THE SONGSTRESS
CHAPTER XXIV.
MAX'S STORY CONTINUED--THE JOURNEYMAN PRINTER
CHAPTER XXV.
MAX'S STORY CONTINUED--THE DARK SHADOW
CHAPTER XXVI.
MAX'S STORY CONTINUED--THE WIDOW AND HER SON
CHAPTER XXVII.
MAX'S STORY CONTINUED--THE BLACKSMITH SHOP
CHAPTER XXVIII.
MAX'S STORY CONCLUDED--THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS
CHAPTER XXIX.
ELYSIUM
CHAPTER XXX.
UPON THE HOUSE-TOP
CHAPTER XXXI.
"SHEOL"
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE RAT-TRAP
CHAPTER XXXIII.
"THE OCEAN OVERPEERS ITS LIST"
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE PRINCE GIVES HIS LAST BRIBE
CHAPTER XXXV.
THE LIBERATED PRISONER
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CÆSAR ERECTS HIS MONUMENT
CHAPTER XXXVII.
THE SECOND DAY
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXXIX.
EUROPE
CHAPTER XL.
THE GARDEN IN THE MOUNTAINS
End of Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly
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