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Island of Doctor Moreau
A Critical Text of the 1896 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Häftad, 2012
429 kr
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H.G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote some of the great classics of speculative fiction in English, including The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), which might be said to be about unholy genetics. The work's biological and sociopolitical ideas are still current (such were the range and depth of Wells' …
Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
Häftad, 2012
396 kr
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H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue--"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"--has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific …
War of the Worlds
A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations and Appendices
Häftad, 2012
429 kr
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Wells' novel, a "scientific romance," attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by the redoubtable Orson Welles. It was also notably made into an early fifties science fiction adventure movie (and there have been other …
Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein
Av Leon Stover
Häftad, 2008
486 kr
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As a publisher's category, science fiction began in the American pulp magazine industry in 1926. But its origins lay in the British tradition of the scientific romance, whose mastery by H.G. Wells in his Victorian youth (1895-1901) makes him the "father of modern SF" (Jules Verne is a more distant …
Stonehenge City
A Reconstruction
Av Leon Stover
Häftad, 2009
435 kr
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Stonehenge dates its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times). It attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is more than an array of great standing stones. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of …
Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius
Av Leon Stover
Häftad, 2010
577 kr
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Initiated during the Former Han Dynasty in 136 BCE, the state cult of Confucius endured for more than 2000 years as the civil religion of a vast empire that ever-renewed itself despite periodic disunity and barbarian conquests. This was a weak agrarian state whose foundation was a Neolithic …
