{"product_id":"the-plato-papers-9780385497695","title":"The Plato Papers","description":"From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of \u003cb\u003eThe Life of Thomas More\u003c\/b\u003e, a novel that playfully imagines how the \"modern\" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, is known for his lectures on the long, tumultuous history of his now tranquil city. Plato focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of Mouldwarp. His subjects include Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece \"Jokes and Their Relation to the Subconscious,\" and Charles D.'s greatest novel, \"The Origin of Species.\" He explores the rituals of Mouldwarp, and the later cult of webs and nets that enslaved the population. By the end of his lecture series, however, Plato has been drawn closer to the subject of his fascination than he could ever have anticipated. At once funny and erudite, \u003cb\u003eThe Plato Papers\u003c\/b\u003e is a smart and entertaining look at how the future is imagined, the present absorbed, and the past misrepresented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books include the biographies \u003cb\u003eDickens, Blake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eThomas More\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the novels \u003cb\u003eThe Trial of Elizabeth Cree, Milton in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eThe Plato Papers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (jointly), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e fiction prize. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914037661970,"sku":"9780385497695","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62c946c9-860e-4d7c-b70c-db95ab8edc0d.jpg?v=1738803189","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-plato-papers-9780385497695","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}