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The New America: The New World is a collection of four articles by H. G. Wells written to examine the American scene, which Wells summed up in 1935 as "the spectacle of a great material civilization, halted, paralyzed."
The Future in America was well received in the United States, where Wells "always enjoyed a good reputation, and had occasional strong friendships with those on the American left such as Lincoln Steffens, Ella Winter, Upton Sinclair, and others"; in Britain the book was very successful and was praised by Morley Roberts, Winston Churchill, and Beatrice Webb.
Wells describes how the boards and planks can be used to set up various imaginative geographies to play the "game of wonderful islands" in which the floor is the sea, [6] create the setting for "twin cities" (to allow his two sons a measure of independence in their creations), [7] or undertake engineering projects (he describes the building of ...
The film centers on the panic created when The Mercury Theater on the Air presented a radio adaptation of an 1897 H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. In spite of many pre-broadcast promotions describing the play, and several statements during the program itself, the 1938 broadcast, which featured simulated news reports ...
George Albert Wells (22 May 1926 – 23 January 2017) [1] [2] was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London.After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus, starting with his book The Jesus of the Early Christians in 1971. [3]
Full text available; A scan of The Salvaging of Civilization at the Internet Archive Full text available; The Salvaging of Civilisation on Goodreads; Reed, John R. (Summer 1979). "The Future According to H.G. Wells". The North American Review. 264 (2): 53–56 (4 pages). JSTOR 25125698
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Experiment in Autobiography is an autobiographical work by H. G. Wells, originally published in two volumes. [1] He began to write it in 1932, and completed it in the summer of 1934. Experiment in Autobiography is divided into eight "chapters" (the last two of which are more than 100 pages long) which are divided in toto into 56 sections.