An edition of The Man in the High Castle (1962)

The man in the high castle

First Mariner books edition.
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An edition of The Man in the High Castle (1962)

The man in the high castle

First Mariner books edition.
  • 3.56 ·
  • 96 Ratings
  • 330 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 130 Have read

Overview: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war-and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.

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Language
English
Pages
274

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Cover of: The man in the high castle
The man in the high castle
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English - First Mariner books edition.
Cover of: The man in the high castle
The man in the high castle
2011, Mariner Books
in English - 1st Mariner Books ed.
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C ovek u visokom dvorcu
2002, Editor
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Le Maitre Du Haut Chateau
December 31, 1998, Editions 84
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The man in the high castle
The man in the high castle
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Das Orakel vom Berge
Das Orakel vom Berge: Science-fiction-Roman
1989, Bastei Lübbe
in German - Dt. Lizenzausg., 1. Aufl.
Cover of: The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle
December 1983, Ace Books
in English

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Book Details


Published in

Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York

Edition Notes

"Mariner Books."

"Originally published in hardcover by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, in 1962"--Title page verso.

Copyright Date
1962

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3554.I3 M26 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
274 pages
Number of pages
274

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31977870M
Internet Archive
maninhighcastle0000dick
ISBN 10
0544817281
ISBN 13
9780544817289
OCLC/WorldCat
922630594

Work Description

The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Beginning in 2015, the book was adapted as a multi-season TV series, with Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, serving as one of the show's producers.

Reported inspirations include Ward Moore's alternate Civil War history, Bring the Jubilee (1953), various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching (referred to in the novel). The novel features a "novel within the novel" comprising an alternate history within this alternate history wherein the Allies defeat the Axis (though in a manner distinct from the actual historical outcome).

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For a week Mr R.Childan had been anxiously watching the mail.
added by J. Ali Harlow.

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