| 词条 | Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future |
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| name = Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future | title_orig = | translator = | image = Image:Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future (Novel), 1st edition cover.jpg | caption = First UK edition | author = Evelyn Waugh | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Chapman & Hall | release_date = 1953 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future is a 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh.[1] It is a satire set in a dystopian, quasi-egalitarian Britain. PlotThe protagonist, Miles Plastic, is an orphan who at the beginning of the story is finishing a prison term for arson. Crime is treated very leniently by the state, and conditions in prison are actually quite superior to those among the population at large, leading to an understandably high recidivism rate. Upon release, Plastic goes to work at a state-run euthanasia centre. The centres are not restricted to the terminally ill and are so popular that Plastic's sole responsibility is to stem "the too eager rush" of perfectly healthy but "welfare weary" citizens. Plastic soon falls in love with Clara, a bearded woman who is a "priority case" at the centre. However, she does not wish to die (she was sent there by her department) and the two begin a romance. One day, however, she suddenly disappears, and when he finds her, she has a rubber jaw replacing her formerly bearded face. Distraught, Plastic sets his former prison on fire, and, unidentified as the perpetrator of the crime, becomes elevated in status as the prison's only "successfully rehabilitated inmate." Sent to become a lecturer on the worthiness of the prison system, Plastic is directed to marry an unattractive civil servant. A curtain is drawn on the final conclusion as Plastic reaches into his pocket for his cigarette lighter. References1. ^{{Cite book | title=Google books entry | last= | first= | work=books.google.com | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odgOl06HasQC&pg=PR36 | date= | accessdate=2008-03-05 }} {{Evelyn Waugh}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Love Among The Ruins: A Romance Of The Near Future}} 10 : Novels by Evelyn Waugh|Dystopian novels|1953 British novels|Novels about orphans|Chapman & Hall books|Novels set in the future|Bearded women|Euthanasia|Arson|Prisoners and detainees of the United Kingdom |
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