Author: Herbert George Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Joan and Peter II. The story of a great schoolmaster
Author: Herbert George Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Joan and Peter II. The story of a great schoolmaster
Author: Herbert George Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Works of H.G. Wells
Author: Herbert George Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2398
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2398
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Maps of Utopia
Author: Simon J. James
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191640018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, prophecy, and utopia, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction. This book asks what Wells thought literature was, and what he thought it was for. H. G. Wells formulated a literary aesthetics based on scientific principles, designed to improve the world both in the present and for future generations. Unlike Henry James, with whom he famously argued, Wells was not content simply to let literary art be, for its own sake: he wanted to make art instrumental in improving the lives of its readers, by bringing about the founding the World State that he predicted was man's only alternative to self-destruction. Such a project differed radically from the aims of Wells's late-Victorian and his Modernist contemporaries - with consequences for the nature both of Wells's writing and for his subsequent critical reception. Maps of Utopia begins with the late-Victorian debate about the uses of effect of reading, especially reading fiction, that followed the mass literacy of the 1870-71 Education Acts. It considers Wells's best known scientific romances, such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, and important social novels such as Tono-Bungay. It also examines less well-known texts such as The Sea Lady, Boon and Wells's journalism and political writings. This study closes with his cinematic collaboration The Shape of Things to Come, and The Outline of History, Wells's best-selling book in his own lifetime.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191640018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, prophecy, and utopia, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction. This book asks what Wells thought literature was, and what he thought it was for. H. G. Wells formulated a literary aesthetics based on scientific principles, designed to improve the world both in the present and for future generations. Unlike Henry James, with whom he famously argued, Wells was not content simply to let literary art be, for its own sake: he wanted to make art instrumental in improving the lives of its readers, by bringing about the founding the World State that he predicted was man's only alternative to self-destruction. Such a project differed radically from the aims of Wells's late-Victorian and his Modernist contemporaries - with consequences for the nature both of Wells's writing and for his subsequent critical reception. Maps of Utopia begins with the late-Victorian debate about the uses of effect of reading, especially reading fiction, that followed the mass literacy of the 1870-71 Education Acts. It considers Wells's best known scientific romances, such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, and important social novels such as Tono-Bungay. It also examines less well-known texts such as The Sea Lady, Boon and Wells's journalism and political writings. This study closes with his cinematic collaboration The Shape of Things to Come, and The Outline of History, Wells's best-selling book in his own lifetime.
Joan and Peter: The story of an education
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368910523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368910523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
H. G. Wells and Modern Science Fiction
Author: Darko Suvin
Publisher: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770484698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition of this science fiction classic includes extensive materials on Wells’s scientific and political influences.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770484698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition of this science fiction classic includes extensive materials on Wells’s scientific and political influences.
H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life
Author: Michael Sherborne
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 0720613817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An unlikely lothario, one of the most successful writers of his time, a figure at the heart of the age's political and artistic debates—H. G. Wells' life is a great story in its own right When H. G. Wells left school in 1880 at 13 he seemed destined for obscurity—yet he defied expectations, becoming one of the most famous writers in the world. He wrote classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds; reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The History of Mr Polly; pioneered postmodernism in experimental fiction; and harangued his contemporaries in polemics which included two bestselling histories of the world. He brought equal energy to his outrageously promiscuous love life—a series of affairs embraced distinguished authors such as Dorothy Richardson and Rebecca West, the gun-toting travel writer Odette Keun, and Russian spy Moura Budberg. Until his death in 1946 Wells had artistic and ideological confrontations with everyone from Henry James to George Orwell, from Churchill to Stalin. He remains a controversial figure, attacked by some as a philistine, sexist, and racist, praised by others as a great writer, a prophet of globalization, and a pioneer of human rights. Setting the record straight, this authoritative biography is the first full-scale account to include material from the long-suppressed skeleton correspondence with his mistresses and illegitimate daughter.
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN: 0720613817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An unlikely lothario, one of the most successful writers of his time, a figure at the heart of the age's political and artistic debates—H. G. Wells' life is a great story in its own right When H. G. Wells left school in 1880 at 13 he seemed destined for obscurity—yet he defied expectations, becoming one of the most famous writers in the world. He wrote classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds; reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The History of Mr Polly; pioneered postmodernism in experimental fiction; and harangued his contemporaries in polemics which included two bestselling histories of the world. He brought equal energy to his outrageously promiscuous love life—a series of affairs embraced distinguished authors such as Dorothy Richardson and Rebecca West, the gun-toting travel writer Odette Keun, and Russian spy Moura Budberg. Until his death in 1946 Wells had artistic and ideological confrontations with everyone from Henry James to George Orwell, from Churchill to Stalin. He remains a controversial figure, attacked by some as a philistine, sexist, and racist, praised by others as a great writer, a prophet of globalization, and a pioneer of human rights. Setting the record straight, this authoritative biography is the first full-scale account to include material from the long-suppressed skeleton correspondence with his mistresses and illegitimate daughter.