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{{Short description|1893 novel by E. Douglas Fawcett}}
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[[Image:HartmannTheAnarchistShellingTheHousesOfParliament.jpg|thumb|300px|Shelling The Houses Of Parliament]]
[[Image:HartmannTheAnarchistPouringDownLiquidFire.jpg|thumb|300px|Pouring down liquid fire.]]
[[Image:HartmannTheAnarchistThusReturnsHartmannTheAnarchist.jpg|thumb|300px|"Thus returns Hartmann the Anarchist."]]
'''''Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City''''' is a [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by [[Edward Douglas Fawcett]] first published in 1893.<ref>Hartmann the Anarchist, Tangent Books, 2009.</ref> It remained [[out of print]] for over 100 years and has only recently been re-published.
The plot centers around Mr Stanley, a young moneyed gentleman who aims to stand for [[election]] as part of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour party]] in the early 20th century. Through his associations with many of [[London]]'s most prominent [[socialist]]s and [[anarchist]]s, he encounters and befriends Rudolph Hartmann and 'goes along' with Hartmann's plan to attack London using his [[airship]] ''The Attila''. Much of London is destroyed by fire and shells in the beginning of their plans to replace civilization with anarchism:
"But how is the new order to take shape? How educe system from chaos?"
"We want no more 'systems,' or 'constitutions' -- we shall have anarchy. Men will effect by voluntary association, and abjure the foulness of the modern wage-slavery and city-mechanisms."
"But can you expect the more brutal classes to thrive under this system. Will they not rather degenerate into savagery?"
"You forget the Attila will still sail the breeze, and she will then have her fleet of consorts."
"What! You do not propose, then, to leave anarchy unreasoned?"
"Not at once -- the transition would be far too severe. Some supervision must necessarily be exercised, but, as a rule, it will never be more than nominal."<ref name="The Doom of the Great City">{{Cite web |url=https://airminded.org/2007/07/22/the-doom-of-the-great-city/ |title=The Doom of the Great City |last=Holman |first=Brett |date=2007-07-22 |website=Airminded |access-date=2018-07-19}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Anarchism|Literature|Speculative fiction}}
*''[[Die Anarchisten]]'', an 1891 novel by John Henry Mackay also set in the ''fin de siècle'' London anarchist milieu
*[[The Aerial Anarchists]]
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://archive.org/details/hartmannanarchi00fawcgoog ''Hartmann the Anarchist''] at the [[Internet Archive]]
* {{librivox book | title=Hartmann the Anarchist}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114092237/http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/products/Hartmann-The-Anarchist.html Tangent Books Website]
* [https://airminded.org/2007/07/22/the-doom-of-the-great-city/ A 2007 appreciation of the novel]
[[Category:1892 British novels]]
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[[Category:British science fiction novels]]