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Title: It's not a *novel*
Review: This is not a novel. The people in it aren't even characters; they're archetypes, with no names (The Policeman, The Laborer, that sort of thing). Think of The Canterbury Tales; it's like that. It's more like a medieval morality play than an actual story.And, frankly, the moral it's trying to drive home is pretty dated by this point. Yes, it's possible for even the greatest nation to be toppled when it hits an Out Of Context Problem. But that's been driven home repeatedly over the past couple of centuries--most recently on 11 Sep. 2001. If you really want to read on this theme, pick some more recent author.
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