Some classic fiction and social change

Antigone – Sophocles
Lysistrata – Aristophanes  [Lysistrata Project]
The Praise of Folly – Erasmus
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
“A Modest Proposal” – Jonathan Swift
“The War Prayer” – Mark Twain
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Dispossessed – Ursula LeGuin
Ecotopia – Ernest Callenbach
Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” – Ursula LeGuin
“The School” – Donald Barthelme
“Please Attack Appalachia” – Mike Bryan
“The Complaint of Peace” – Erasmus
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
“The Yellow Wallpaper” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Woman on the Edge of Time – Marge Piercy
Wizard of the Crow – Ngugi wa Thiong’o

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