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
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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
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.
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)
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island ...
Author: Herbert George Wells
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The adventures of Oxford educated Arnold Blettsworthy who sets sail to recover from disappointments in business and love, only to encounter many more challenges.
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The adventures of Oxford educated Arnold Blettsworthy who sets sail to recover from disappointments in business and love, only to encounter many more challenges.
The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460404211
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: 1460404211
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.
An H.G. Wells Chronology
Author: J. Hammond
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230390021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
A detailed chronology of the life of H.G. Wells, tracing his career from his earliest writings to his world fame as a novelist, prophet and popular educator. This Chronology brings vividly to life his extraordinary energy and industry, and the wide range of his friendships and interests. Written by one of the leading authorities on Wells, this Chronology offers a definitive outline of the life and times of a major twentieth-century writer.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230390021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
A detailed chronology of the life of H.G. Wells, tracing his career from his earliest writings to his world fame as a novelist, prophet and popular educator. This Chronology brings vividly to life his extraordinary energy and industry, and the wide range of his friendships and interests. Written by one of the leading authorities on Wells, this Chronology offers a definitive outline of the life and times of a major twentieth-century writer.
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
Papers ...
Author: Manchester Literary Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description