War in the Air. When the Sleeper Awakens. A Tale of the Days to Come.
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War in the Air. When the Sleeper Awakens. A Tale of the Days to Come.
14.99 €
Herbert Wells was keenly interested in the future. The powerful impetus that the writer gave to science fiction can still be felt today. His novel "War in the Air" he wrote in 1907 - just a few years after the first flights of the Wright brothers. Knowledge and intuition allowed Wells to draw bold pictures of the future, but the main thing in them - not predicting the monorail, motorcycles or large-scale development of the air ocean, but a premonition of the inevitable world war, which draws in its deadly maelstrom more and more countries. Unfortunately, Wells' foresight came true in 1914. The writer had a chance to see the Second World War, which he also predicted. It is not by chance that in 1941, five years before his death, Wells wished that the text of the epitaph, printed after his death was the phrase "I warned you. You damned fools!". Another famous novel of the writer - "When the Sleeper Wakes" - can be attributed to the genre of dystopias. Amended and revised version of it was published in 1910. The success of this novel, as well as almost all the works of Wells, was based not so much on colorful descriptions of life in the distant XXI century, as on the disappointing social predictions of the writer, who argued that in the distant future, one tyranny will still be replaced by another, and the life of the common man, on whom little depends, will remain unsettling. And in the twenty-first century, these masterfully written works continue to retain their extraordinary popularity. The design of the collection includes more than a hundred illustrations by foreign artists: A. Michael, A. Lano, F. Jenishek and E. Sullivan.
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