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Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy
ISBN: 9780853234494 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase 'the Shape of Things to Come' described his life's work as one of 'critical anticipation'. Shadows of the Future identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. Described by John Middleton Murry as 'the last prophet of bourgeois Europe', he was also its first futurologist.
H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase 'the Shape of Things to Come' described his life's work as one of 'critica...
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120,12 zł |
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The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
ISBN: 9781441112996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his... H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction,... |
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197,05 zł |
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James Joyce
ISBN: 9780521283984 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is an original and well-informed survey of the whole of Joyce's work.
This book is an original and well-informed survey of the whole of Joyce's work.
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311,07 zł |
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Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
ISBN: 9780367749392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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477,15 zł |
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Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
ISBN: 9780415869157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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114,06 zł |
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Nation and Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780199264858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is "English" about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profound differences from poetry and drama affect its representation of national consciousness?
Nation and Novel sets out to answer these questions by tracing English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the present-day novels of immigration. Major novelists from Daniel Defoe to the late twentieth century have drawn on national history and mythology... What is "English" about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel's profou...
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192,98 zł |
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Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond
ISBN: 9781137456779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.
Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observa...
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384,63 zł |
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Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
ISBN: 9780826462534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his... H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction,... |
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2048,87 zł |
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Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780415291316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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399,35 zł |
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Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9780582489295 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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259,30 zł |
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H.G. Wells
ISBN: 9780415852050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini b...
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228,18 zł |
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Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia
ISBN: 9780822327738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A definite look at the state of science fiction studies today that surveys the field from Hugo Gernsbach to the present.
A definite look at the state of science fiction studies today that surveys the field from Hugo Gernsbach to the present.
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114,06 zł |
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Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9780367756345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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544,64 zł |
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The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940
ISBN: 9780199559336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. The 36 expert contributors to Volume 4 trace the dramatic changes in...
The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose ...
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829,40 zł |
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Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
ISBN: 9780367749422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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150,37 zł |
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Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9781138165427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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700,25 zł |
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H.G. Wells
ISBN: 9780415159104 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media.
The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available ...
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1556,10 zł |
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The War in the Air
ISBN: 9780141441306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A cornerstone of early science fiction and a haunting image of world war
Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although bombers devastate the city, they cannot overwhelm the country, and their attack leads not to victory but to the beginning of a new and horrific age for humanity. And so dawns the era of Total War, in which brutal aerial bombardments reduce the great cultures of the twentieth century to nothing. As civilization collapses... A cornerstone of early science fiction and a haunting image of world war
Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert... |
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70,93 zł |
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The Sleeper Awakes
ISBN: 9780141441061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical force
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved.... A fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical force
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England fa... |
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45,78 zł |
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A Modern Utopia
ISBN: 9780141441122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date...
In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Governm...
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50,87 zł |
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