Author: Louis-Sébastien Mercier
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Memoirs of the Year 2500
Author: Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Memoirs of the Year 2500
Author: Louis-Sébastien Mercier
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Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Science-fiction, the Early Years
Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Catalogue of the Extensive & Valuable Library of the Late J.G. Nichols, ...
Author: John Gough Nichols
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Catalogue of Books in the Portsmouth Athenæum
Author: Portsmouth Athenæum (Portsmouth, N.H.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia
Author: Nathaniel Robert Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192605879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192605879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
Catalogue of books, for sale by E. and S. Larkin, No. 47, Cornhill, Boston, etc
Author: Ebenezer LARKIN (and (S.))
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Baltimore, 1858
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Reign of Terror in America
Author: Rachel Hope Cleves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this book, Cleves argues that American fears of the violence of the French Revolution led to antislavery, antiwar, and public education movements.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this book, Cleves argues that American fears of the violence of the French Revolution led to antislavery, antiwar, and public education movements.
Catalogue of the Parthenon Circulating Library and Reading Rooms
Author: Francis, David G., firm, booksellers, New York
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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