NEWTE, Horace (Wykeham Can)

(1870-1949)

   UK novelist and controversialist on political matters whose The Master Beast: Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism, A.D. 1888-2020 (1907; vt The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism 1919) lives fully up to its subtitle, telling ofa young socialist at the turn of the 20th century who first experiences a German INVASION of an unprepared UK, then, after awakening (SLEEPERAWAKES) from suspended animation, experiences the enormity of a century of socialist rule, with women freed for immorality, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) canonized, and thought-control universal. The Ealing Miracle:A Realistic Story (1911) is a fantasy in which two women exchange personalities at the behest of a Christlike stranger and learn about love and deprivation.

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