Titlebook: An H. G. Wells Companion; A guide to the novel J. R. Hammond Book 1979 J. R. Hammond 1979 fiction.history of literature.literature.nineteen

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The First Men in the Moon circumstantial descriptions of the lunar landscape; and finally the satirical account of the Selenite civilisation. It is these elements, combined with an assured narrative style, which have won for . a permanent place in the literature of science fiction as a classic of the imagination.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09754-9ng, which is admittedly undistinguished, but rather in its symbolic undertones; for . is in essence a fantasia on a theme which was to dominate Wells’s fiction for several decades—‘the harsh incompatibility of wide public interests with the high, swift rush of imaginative passion’.

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The Invisible Man a much more assured piece of storytelling than either . (1895) or . (1896), and marks a considerable advance in narrative skill. One has only to consider the opening paragraph to recognise at once the hand of a literary artist thoroughly acquainted with his medium:

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