书目名称 | H G Wells | 副标题 | A Literary Life | 编辑 | Adam Roberts | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/421/420001/420001.mp4 | 概述 | Authored by one of the world‘s foremost science-fiction critics.Constitutes one of the only literary biographies of this widely-studied and much-loved writer.Groups chronological accounts of Wells‘ li | 丛书名称 | Literary Lives | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells’ importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering a nuanced portrait of the man who coined the phrases ‘atom bomb’, ‘League of Nations’ ‘the war to end war’ and ‘time machine’, who wrote the world’s first comprehensive global history and invented the idea of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters, Roberts covers the entirety of Wells’ life and discusses every book and short story he produced, delivering a complete vision of this enduring figure.. . . | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | Science fiction; Dystopia; Fin-de-siècle; War of the Worlds; The Time Machine; Biography; British and Iris | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26421-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-26420-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-26421-5Series ISSN 2946-2037 Series E-ISSN 2946-2045 | issn_series | 2946-2037 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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