The Last Books of H.G. Wells

The Last Books of H.G. Wells
Title The Last Books of H.G. Wells PDF eBook
Author HG Wells
Publisher Monkfish Book Publishing
Pages 79
Release 2013-04-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1939681073

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This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with “human insufficiency.” Mind at the End of its Tether “One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Koestler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something no one could agree with, but something that couldn’t be taken lightly.”—Art Beck “In the face of our universal inadequacy . . . man must go steeply up or down and the odds seem to be all in favor of his going down and out. If he goes up, then so great is the adaptation demanded of him that he must cease to be a man. Ordinary man is at the end of his tether.”—HG Wells The Happy Turning Wells’ barbed fantasies about the afterlife take the forms of “happy” dream walks. In one he converses with Jesus: But being crucified upon the irreparable things that one has done, realizing that one has failed, that you have let yourself down and your poor silly disciples down and mankind down, that the God in you has deserted you—that was the ultimate torment. Even on the cross I remember shouting out something about it.” “Eli. Eli, lama sabachthani?” I said. “Did someone get that down?” he replied. “Don’t you read the Gospels?” “Good God, No!” he said. “How can I? I was crucified before all that.”

In the Days of the Comet

In the Days of the Comet
Title In the Days of the Comet PDF eBook
Author Herbert George Wells
Publisher
Pages 396
Release 1906
Genre Comets
ISBN

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The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells

The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells
Title The Utopian Vision of H.G. Wells PDF eBook
Author Justin E.A. Busch
Publisher McFarland
Pages 213
Release 2014-11-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0786455497

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This book examines and develops the evolutionary utopian ideas of H.G. Wells. It begins with a detailed consideration of the types of individuals who could create and live in ideal societies, as well as the social, aesthetic and intellectual aspects of utopian life in Wells's books. It then discusses the role of the state and how Wells's utopian thought requires a permanent commitment to expanding freedom. The final chapter covers death and how utopian thought can profoundly reshape the reader's understanding of his or her own position relative to current and future societies.

Catalog

Catalog
Title Catalog PDF eBook
Author University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book Room
Publisher
Pages 830
Release 1972
Genre Rare books
ISBN

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Twentieth Century Fiction

Twentieth Century Fiction
Title Twentieth Century Fiction PDF eBook
Author George Woodcock
Publisher Springer
Pages 788
Release 1983-04-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349170666

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Title Catalogue of Copyright Entries PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher
Pages 854
Release 1946
Genre Copyright
ISBN

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Title Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Pages 836
Release 1947
Genre
ISBN

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Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1 (1946)