Novel of the Future Century: The Eternal Battle

By Mór Jókai

A prophetic epic from the dawn of science fiction—translated into English for the first time.

Originally published in 1896 by Hungarian literary titan Mór Jókai, The Eternal Battle is a genre-defying masterwork that blends political satire, visionary speculation, and philosophical inquiry. Set in a future imagined through the lens of a 19th-century patriot, the novel confronts the enduring struggle between liberty and power, progress and peril, human conscience and the machinery of the state.

In a world where nationalism fuels conflict, technology transforms society, and ideals are tested on the battlefield, Jókai constructs a dramatic vision of what the next century might bring—and in doing so, eerily anticipates many of the crises that shaped the next century. From aerial warfare to mass propaganda, from financial empires to authoritarian regimes, his predictions are as startling as they are insightful.

This first-ever English edition, translated by Lucius Madison, offers modern readers a vivid, unsettling mirror of our own world through the imagination of a revolutionary from another age.