Author: Herbert George WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Joan and Peter II. The story of a great schoolmaster
Author: Herbert George WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Works of H.G. Wells
Author: Herbert George WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Joan and Peter: The story of an education
Author: H.G. WellsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368910523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Maps of Utopia
Author: Simon J. JamesPublisher: 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.
H. G. Wells
Author: Vincent BromePublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 1842320319
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
'Don't interrupt me, ' said Wells, 'can't you see I'm dying!' In this seminal biography, Vincent Brome recounts the rich fantastic cauldron of Wells' life - from his politics and writing to his complex and torn emotional life, and his painful, lingering death. Here was a man 'whose greatness lay in his ordinariness', but who was never truly ordinary.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: 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)
The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
Author: Patrick ParrinderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1623568641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain. This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union. Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe Review
H.G. Wells
Author: Patrick ParrinderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134724187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Yearbook
Author: Future Teachers of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
Author: Herbert George WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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.