When the Sleeper Awakes

Wells, Herbert

ISBN 10: 0786406666 / ISBN 13: 9780786406661

Editore: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 1999

Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Codice articolo 56842192-6

Riassunto:

Critics rightly view When the Sleeper Wakes as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel, a genre developed by Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the moral horrors of fascism and communism. Suppose, however, that Wells rather favored unlawful statist controls, if justified in a good cause by his own ideological lights? This is one possibility explored in the apparatus to the present edition. Annotated by the worlds leading Wellsian scholar, in Sleeper is found a greater measure of artistry and characterization than is usually accorded it. As a complex work combining technological with social speculation, Sleeper is unmatched for canniness in the history of futuristic literature. Indeed, its aeronautical details influenced the Wright Brothers in the design of their flyer, and the novel predicts the promotion of airplanes as a weapon, a prophecy dramatically fulfilled in the twentieth century. This exhaustive critical edition follows other influential titles in the series and features a lengthy introduction, appendices, bibliography and index, and a frontispiece taken from the original 1899 edition.

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Titolo: When the Sleeper Awakes
Casa editrice: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Data di pubblicazione: 1999
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good