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Trying to cure his insomnia, Londoner Graham falls into a drug-induced coma in 1897… and wakes up 203 years later. He discovers a world in turmoil, a world shocked at his awakening, a world… that he owns.
Thus begins H.G. Wells' classic tale of a man out of time.
Thrust into this new world, Graham becomes a symbol both for those who want to keep him as a figure head to maintain the status quo, and the rebels who want him to overthrow the government.
While d"
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781515423188 |
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Publisher: | Wilder Publications |
Publication date: | 04/03/2018 |
Pages: | 204 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d) |
About the Author
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Herbert George Wells was born on 21 September, 1866. He was an English author. He wrote many books, brief tales, and works of social discourse, history, parody, account, and self-portrayal. Two of his books were written on recreational war games. In the present times, Wells is known for his sci-fi books and is frequently called the father of sci-fi"". In his own lifespan, he was regarded as a forward-looking, social critic who gave his scholarly abilities to the improvement of an ever-evolving vision on a worldwide scale. As a futurist, he composed various idealistic works and predicted the approach of an airplane, tanks, space travel, atomic weapons, satellite TV, and something that seemed similar to the World Wide Web. His sci-fis were based upon topics like time travel, allien intrusion, invisibility, and bio-engineering. Brian Aldiss alluded to Wells as the ""Shakespeare of sci-fi"", while American essayist Charles Fort alluded to him as a ""wild ability"". Wells delivered his works persuading by imparting ordinary detail close by a solitary phenomenal suspicion for every work - named ""Wells' regulation"" - allowing Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as ""O Realist of the Fantastic!"". His most striking sci-fi works incorporate The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and the tactical sci-fi The War in the Air (1907). Wells got nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Wells was professionally trained in biology and his reasoning on legal matters occurred in a context that referred to Darwin. He was a frank communist since early on, frequently (however not generally, as toward the start of the First World War) identifying with conservative perspectives. His later works turned out to be progressively political and instructional. Books, for example, Kipps and The History of Mr. Polly, which portray lower-working class life, prompted the idea that he was the deserved successor to Charles Dickens, however, Wells depicted a scope of social layers and tries to bring out the English society as a whole in Tono-Bungay (1909). Wells was diabetic and was the co-founder of the foundation 'The Diabetic Association' (referred to now as Diabetes UK) in 1934.
Date of Birth:
September 21, 1866Date of Death:
August 13, 1946Place of Birth:
Bromley, Kent, EnglandPlace of Death:
London, EnglandEducation:
Normal School of Science, London, EnglandTable of Contents
Preface | i | |
1 | Insomnia | 1 |
2 | The Trance | 11 |
3 | The Awakening | 19 |
4 | The Sound of a Tumult | 25 |
5 | The Moving Ways | 41 |
6 | The Hall of the Atlas | 47 |
7 | In the Silent Rooms | 59 |
8 | The Roof Spaces | 73 |
9 | The People March | 89 |
10 | The Battle of the Darkness | 97 |
11 | The Old Man Who Knew Everything | 111 |
12 | Ostrog | 125 |
13 | The End of the Old Order | 143 |
14 | From the Crow's Nest | 149 |
15 | Prominent People | 157 |
16 | The Monoplane | 171 |
17 | Three Days | 183 |
18 | Graham Remembers | 191 |
19 | Ostrog's Point of View | 203 |
20 | In the City Ways | 213 |
21 | The Under Side | 237 |
22 | The Struggle in the Council House | 245 |
23 | Graham Speaks His Word | 261 |
24 | While the Aeroplanes Were Coming | 267 |
25 | The Coming of the Aeroplanes | 275 |
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