| A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, Fiction, Literary, Essays Contributor(s): Wells, H. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592243967 ISBN-13: 9781592243969 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.86" W x 8.8" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since this may be the last book of the kind I shall ever publish, I have written into it as well as I can the heretical metaphysical skepticism upon which all my thinking rests, and I have inserted certain sections reflecting upon the established methods of sociological and economic science. . . . The last four words will not attract the butterfly reader, I know. I have done my best to make the whole of this book as lucid and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to him who proposes to glance through my pages just to see if I agree with him, or to begin in the middle, or to read without a constantly alert attention. If you are not already a little interested and open-minded with regard to social and political questions, and a little exercised in self-examination, you will find neither interest nor pleasure here. If your mind is "made up" upon such issues your time will be wasted on these pages. And even if you are a willing reader you may require a little patience for the peculiar method I have this time adopted. That method assumes an air of haphazard, but it is not so careless as it seems. I believe it to be -- even now that I am through with the book -- the best way to a sort of lucid vagueness which has always been my intention in this matter. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wells, H. G.: - "Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946)-known as H. G. Wells-was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics and social commentary, as well as textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times." |