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55 produkter
War of the Worlds
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
Inbunden, 2018
215 kr
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the …
Invisible Man
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
Häftad, 2005
129 kr
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With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that …
Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)
Av Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
166 kr
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An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are brought together to demonstrate that technology …
War of the Worlds
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
Häftad, 2005
126 kr
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'The classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best' The TimesThe first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works. It shows the whole of human civilization under threat, as terrifying, …
Time Machine
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
Häftad, 2005
126 kr
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'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. …
Island of Doctor Moreau
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
139 kr
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A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a fascinating exploration of what it is to be human. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Patrick Parrinder with notes by Steven McLean and an introduction by Margaret …
Sleeper Awakes
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
Häftad, 2005
139 kr
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A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is …
Country of the Blind and other Selected Stories
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
Häftad, 2007
179 kr
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Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the …
Time Machine
Av H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder
E-bok, 2007
62 kr
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'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. …
Nation and Novel
The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day
E-bok, 2006
469 kr
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What is ''English'' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel''s profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by …
Nation and Novel
The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day
E-bok, 2008
469 kr
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What is ''English'' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel''s profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness? Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by …
Nation and Novel
The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day
Häftad, 2008
766 kr
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What is 'English' about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness?Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by …
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940
Av Patrick Parrinder, Andrzej Gasiorek
Inbunden, 2010
3365 kr
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and …
Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
Inbunden, 2021
1749 kr
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This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work towards a more comprehensive view of the genre, the author analyses science fiction by turns as a …
Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
Häftad, 2022
577 kr
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This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work towards a more comprehensive view of the genre, the author analyses science fiction by turns as a …
Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
Inbunden, 2021
2100 kr
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This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of …
Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
Häftad, 2022
577 kr
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This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of …
H.G. Wells
Inbunden, 1997
8711 kr
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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 …
Science Fiction
Inbunden, 2002
1749 kr
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First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream.
H.G. Wells
Häftad, 2013
861 kr
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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 …
Science Fiction
Häftad, 2013
443 kr
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First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream.
James Joyce
Häftad, 1984
898 kr
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James Joyce holds a unique position in literature. No writer has a higher reputation, none attracts more ardent devotees, and none poses so many difficulties for the first-time reader. This book is an original and well-informed survey of the whole of Joyce's work. It offers close readings of his …
Science Fiction
A Critical Guide
Häftad, 1979
995 kr
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First published in 1979. What do we mean by Science Fiction? What does it do, and why do so many people read it? What are its characteristic values, attitudes and procedures? Is it a creative force in our society, or merely a pathological symptom? How much of it is worth the attention of the …
H. G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine
Av George Slusser, Patrick Parrinder m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
570 kr
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Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. H. G. Wells's first--and greatest--novel has been recognized worldwide as a founding text of the science fiction genre and one of the most seminal narratives of the last hundred …
Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
Av Patrick Parrinder, John S. Partington
Inbunden, 2005
6503 kr
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The Reception of British Authors in Europe series includes literary and political figures, as well as philosophers, historians and scientists. Each volume provides new research on the ways in which selected authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed A pioneering scholarly …
Shadows of the Future
H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy
Häftad, 1995
528 kr
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H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase ‘the Shape of Things to Come’ described his life’s work as one of ‘critical anticipation’. Shadows of the Future identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells’s diverse and …
Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
E-bok, 2021
663 kr
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This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work towards a more comprehensive view of the genre, the author analyses science fiction by turns as a …
Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
E-bok, 2021
677 kr
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This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of …
Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
E-bok, 2021
677 kr
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This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work towards a more comprehensive view of the genre, the author analyses science fiction by turns as a …
Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
E-bok, 2021
677 kr
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This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of …
