When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices - The Annotated H.G. Wells - H.G. Wells - Books - McFarland & Co Inc - 9780786468737 - May 31, 2012
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When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices - The Annotated H.G. Wells Reprint edition

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When the Sleeper Wakes: A Critical Text of the 1899 New York and London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices - The Annotated H.G. Wells Reprint edition

Critics 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. Annotated by the world's 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 features a lengthy introduction, appendices, bibliography and index, and a frontispiece taken from the original 1899 edition.


477 pages, 3 photographs, annotations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 31, 2012
ISBN13 9780786468737
Publishers McFarland & Co Inc
Pages 477
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 24 mm   ·   635 g
Language English  
Contributor Edited by Leon Stover

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