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    Author: Stapledon, Olaf
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    Apple Alex Synthetic

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    A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans.

    Genre: Science fiction
    Original Publisher: Methuen, 1935 , Victoria Park, Western Australia , Assocation for the Blind of Western Australia
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9780486211336

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Apple Alex Synthetic

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A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans.

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Science fiction
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Methuen, 1935

Victoria Park, Western Australia

Assocation for the Blind of Western Australia

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