The Message
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- First published
- 1907
- Pages
- 290
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Published in 1907, this Edwardian novel unfolds in two parts, "The Descent" and "The Awakening." In the first, Richard Mordan leaves Cambridge for London and takes up newspaper work at the Daily Gazette, and his account of poverty, cheap politics, and moral drift reads as a diagnosis of a nation grown comfortable and careless. The second part turns to catastrophe: a German invasion overwhelms an unprepared Britain, which is beaten, occupied, and forced to pay reparations and surrender colonies before a hard national awakening begins. Dawson wrote within the invasion-scare fiction of his day, sharing the anxieties that drove Erskine Childers and William Le Queux. Beneath the alarm runs a plain argument, that a country's real defences are moral before they are military. It stands as a period warning about complacency, empire, and the cost of neglect.
Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #27860. The PDF has 290 pages; the EPUB is reflowable.
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Book facts
- Author
- A. J. Dawson
- First published
- 1907
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Genre
- 20th Century
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online