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Item Details
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| Author: |
Wells, H.G. |
| Title: |
When the Sleeper Wakes: [A Story of the Years to Come] |
| Place: |
London & New York |
| Publisher: |
Harper & Bros. |
| Date: |
1899 |
| Item # : |
184905 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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297 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 115 |
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| Description: |
| 329 pp. With 3 plates, including the frontispiece. 7¼x4¾, original gilt-lettered red cloth. First Edition. |
| This dystopian view of the future was regarded by Wells as "one of the most ambitious and least satisfactory of my works." But despite its literary failings, it is important, as J. R. Hammond writes, "in that it was one of the first novels of any imaginative merit to question the complacent assumption of progress so widely held at the end of the Victorian age." It also demonstrates its author's uncanny ability to predict technological and social developments of the distant future. [Bleler, Early Sci Fi, 2332. Currey, p. 527. Hammond, Bibliography, B6; Handbook, pp. 94-96. Wells, Bibliography, 15.] |
| Condition: |
| A bit of rubbing to spine and extremities, leaning slightly; hinges cracking at endpapers, very good. |
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