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Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future is a 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. Plot. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who, at the beginning of the story, is finishing a prison term for arson.
- Evelyn Waugh
- 1953
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future by Evelyn Waugh is a sad love story. The protagonist, Miles Plastic, lives in a world where inmates are treated better than the good people who live outside of prison.
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Jun 13, 2011 · Love Among the Ruins: A Novel. Kindle Edition. A beautifully written story of love, idealism, and our recent history. Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body.
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In a future, dystopian Britain, Miles Plastic is in prison for arson. Which isn’t so bad, really – the prisons are actually quite nice. When he is released, he finds himself a nice, wholesome job at a state-run euthanasia clinic trying to control the crushing volume of voluntary applicants.
This is all by way of opening discussion of Robert Clark's third novel, Love Among the Ruins, a story about two teenagers who meet in the "war summer" of 1968 and fall in love.
May 18, 2021 · Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping is a medieval romance novel. Yeoland, the heroine, is out for vengeance against Fulviac, the man whose army devastated her home, family, and life. But, as a woman, she has pity, and pity does not mix well wi...
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LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: A ROMANCE OF THE NEAR FUTURE. London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The Welfare State has become a reality and a generation has grown up with very faint memories of an earlier civilization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 159.
