[BOOK] Hartmann the Anarchist by Edward Douglas Fawcett

I was interested in this anarchist novel because it was first published
in 1892, when the author was sixteen years old. We are in London at the beginning of last century. Bomb-throwing anarchists are public enemy number one. Our storyteller is a anarchist friendly socialist. There are rumours that Hartmann the Anarchist, considered dead on the run, is alive with fiendish plots. Which he is, alive and flying an airship throwing bombs on the parliament and the financial district. Good plan, but we soon learn that the terrorist is a tyrant bastard, just as fucked in the head as any other fucker who believes that the world must die for his version of THE TRUTH. When Hartmann enters the story he has just shot two of his anarchist crew because he thought they were too soft.
This book is interesting for the reasons I already mentioned and I like the writing style, but why anarchist publishers are repressing this now I do not understand. [Bone/Tangent Books]
- Sigurður Harðarson

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