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The Plato Papers

Peter Ackroyd

1999138 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Random House UK Distribution · 138 pages · ENGISBN 9781856197014
  • 2000Vintage · 138 pages · ENGISBN 9780099289951
  • 2000Nan A. Talese · 173 pages · ENGISBN 9780385497688
  • 2001Anchor · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780385497695

A novel on the way time deforms reality and the futility of bucking the process. In the 37th century, as a result of an error somewhere over the centuries, academics teach The Origin of Species was not a book on evolution by Charles Darwin, but a novel by Charles Dickens. When the hero questions the accuracy of this bit of history, he lands in trouble.

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