Man Who Could Work Miracles

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

“Wells’s masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions...academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in this volume”—Library Journal; “Stover is to be thanked for his years of Wellsian scholarship”—Public Library Quarterly; “Stover, by presenting the intellectual underpinnings of Wells’ work, has provided a powerful tool for understanding his writings, one sees them more deeply, without losing that earlier sense-of-wonder that originally opened the vistas of the young reader’s mind...a crucial guide to these classics of science fiction”—Fosfax; “two cheers for Stoverism...formidable scholarship...serious students of Wells would be foolish to ignore ‘Stoverism’”—The Wellsian; “quite interesting. This is a part of series of high quality volumes of annotated work by Wells which McFarland has been publishing under the editorship of Stover, and it is by far the rarest item yet”—Critical Mass; “Stover should be commended for a painstaking and meticulous editorial commentary”—Utopian Studies; “extensively annotated and analyzed by Stover...annotations are filled with insights into Wells’ writings and philosophy”—C&RL News.

• Table of ContentsPreface     viiiIntroduction     1 The Text     2 Cosmic Vision     3 Sex and Politics     4 The Common Man     Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)     (Annotated text of the first New York edition)     AppendicesI: “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” (1898)     II: “A Vision of Judgment” (1899)     III: “Under the Knife” (1896)     IV: “If I Were Dictator of the World” (1931)     Bibliography     Index