An edition of The Wanting Seed (1962)

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An edition of The Wanting Seed (1962)

The wanting seed

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"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious. "

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Publisher
Norton
Language
English
Pages
285

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Subjects

Birth control Fiction Fiction in English Homosexuality Married people Overpopulation English literature Fiction, science fiction, general

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Cover of: The Wanting Seed
The Wanting Seed
1996, W. W. Norton & Company
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The Wanting Seed
1996, W. W. Norton & Company
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The wanting seed
1983, Hamlyn Pub. Group
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Cover of: The wanting seed
The wanting seed
1976, Norton
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The Wanting Seed
1972, Ballantine Books
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The wanting seed
1965, Heinemann
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
The Norton library ; N808

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PR6052.U638 W34 1976

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
285 p. ;
Number of pages
285

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4937913M
LCCN
76365107
OCLC/WorldCat
2374281
LibraryThing
120290

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL261786W

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THIS was the day before the night when the knives of official disappointment struck.
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