Originally presented as part of the Josiah Wood Lectures at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, 1941.
The Edge of the Abyss was first published in Canada in 1942 and then, in a revised version, in the United States the same year, and in Britain two years later. In The Edge of the Abyss, Noyes ponders the future of the world, attacking totalitarianism, bureaucracy, the pervasive power of the state, and the collapse of moral standards. George Orwell reviewed the book for The Observer and, like The Last Man, it is considered a probable influence on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Originally presented as part of the Josiah Wood Lectures at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, 1941.
The Edge of the Abyss was first published in Canada in 1942 and then, in a revised version, in the United States the same year, and in Britain two years later. In The Edge of the Abyss, Noyes ponders the future of the world, attacking totalitarianism, bureaucracy, the pervasive power of the state, and the collapse of moral standards. George Orwell reviewed the book for The Observer and, like The Last Man, it is considered a probable influence on Nineteen Eighty-Four.