H G Wells and All Things Russian

H G  Wells and All Things Russian
Author: Galya Diment
Publsiher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781783089932

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H. G. Wells and All Things Russian is a fertile terrain for research and this volume will be the first to devote itself entirely to the theme. Wells was an astute student of Russian literature, culture and history, and the Russians, in turn, became eager students of Wells’s views and works. During the Soviet years, in fact, no significant foreign author was safer for Soviet critics to praise than H. G. Wells. The reason was obvious. He had met – and largely approved of – Lenin, was a close friend of the Soviet literary giant Maxim Gorky and, in general, expressed much respect for Russia’s evolving Communist experiment, even after it fell into Stalin’s hands. While Wells’s attitude towards the Soviet Union was, nevertheless, often ambivalent, there is definitely nothing ambiguous about the tremendous influence his works had on Russian literary and cultural life.

Russia in the Shadows

Russia in the Shadows
Author: H. G. Wells
Publsiher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2017-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781473349292

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"Russia in the Shadows" is a 1921 book by H. G. Well. It is a collection of articles from "The Sunday Express" pertaining to Wells's 1914 visit to Russia. This fascinating volume provides an authentic and unparalleled insight into Russia at the beginning of the revolution, constituting a must-read for those with an interest in the subject. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Although he was prolific in many genres, he is best remembered for his science fiction novels, including "The Time Machine "(1895), "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), and "The Invisible Man" (1897). Contents include: "Petersburg in Collapse", "Drift and Salvage", "The Quintessence of Bolshevism", "The Creative Effort in Russia", "The Petersburg Soviet", "The Dreamer in the Kremlin", and "The Envoy". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Russia in the Shadows

Russia in the Shadows
Author: H Wells
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1977676960

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Russia in the Shadows is a book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia (after a previous trip in January 1914 to St. Petersburg and Moscow) in September and October 1920. Wells was at the height of his fame, having recently completed The Outline of History, and was paid 1000 for the articles by the Sunday Express. During his visit to Russia he visited his old friend Maxim Gorky, whom he had first met in 1906 on a trip to the United States, and who arranged Wells's meeting with Lenin. Wells portrayed Russia as recovering from a total social collapse, "the completest that has ever happened to any modern social organisation." He minimized the role of the Bolsheviks in the fall of the Russian state, and presented this explanation of their success: "While all the rest of Russia was either apathetic like the peasantry or garrulously at sixes and sevens or given over to violence or fear, the Communists were prepared to act." In a chapter devoted to an interview with Lenin at the Kremlin Wells describes the leader and founder of Russian communism. Wells portrays Lenin as a pragmatic leader who "has recently stripped off the last pretence that the Russian revolution is anything more than the inauguration of an age of limitless experiment." While Wells in Russia in the Shadows, as always, rejects Marxism on principle (Das Kapital impresses him as "a monument of pretentious pedantry"), he argues that "we should understand and respect the professions and principles of the Bolsheviki" in order to make a "helpful intervention" in Russia, lest its social collapse drag down Western civilization with it.

We

We
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin,H. G. Wells
Publsiher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781528789233

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D-503 is a mathematician and citizen of One State, a totalitarian society whose inhabitants live passionless lives under the all-powerful 'Benefactor'. However, when D-503 discovers that he has an individual soul, everything changes. Set in the twenty-sixth century, “We” is the dystopian science fiction novel that inspired George Orwell's famous “1984” and was the first work to be banned by the Soviet censorship board. A frightfully thought-provoking dystopian novel not to be missed by fans of speculative fiction. Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884–1937) was a Russian author who wrote science fiction and political satire. Other notable works by this author include: “Robert Maier” (1922), “Gerbert Uells” (1922), and “On Literature, Revolution, and Entropy” (1924). Read & Co. is republishing this classic science fiction novel in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an Introductory Chapter from H. G. Wells' “The Revolution And Famine In Russia”.

Reimagining Nabokov

Reimagining Nabokov
Author: José Vergara
Publsiher: Amherst College Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2023-02-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781943208500

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In Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in technology, translation and archival studies, and new interpretative models have helped them to address urgent questions of power, authority, and identity. Practical and insightful, this volume features exciting methods through which to reimagine the literature classroom as one of shared agency between students, instructors, and the authors they read together. "It is both timely and refreshing to have an influx of teacher-scholars who engage Nabokov from a variety of perspectives... this volume does justice to the breadth of Nabokov's literary achievements, and it does so with both pedagogical creativity and scholarly integrity."--Dana Dragunoiu, Carleton University "[A] valuable study for any reader, teacher, scholar, or student of Nabokov. Amongst specific and urgent insights on the potential for digital methods, the relevance of Nabokov for students today, and how to reconcile issues of identity with an author who disavowed history and politics, are much wider and timeless questions of authorial control and the ability to access reality."--Anoushka Alexander-Rose, Nabokov Online Journal Reimagining Nabokov takes a holistic approach to the many stumbling blocks in teaching Nabokov today. Especially intriguing about this volume is that through its essays a fresh picture of Nabokov emerges, not as an authoritarian and paranoid world-creator (an image long entrenched in Nabokov scholarship), but as someone who is tentative, hopeful, socially conscious, compassionate, and traumatized by the experience of exile....Reimagining Nabokov models pedagogical concepts that can be applied to teaching any literary text with a social conscience.--Alisa Ballard Lin, Modern Language Review Contributions by Galya Diment, Tim Harte, Robyn Jensen, Sara Karpukhin, Yuri Leving, Roman Utkin, José Vergara, Meghan Vicks, Olga Voronina, Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, and Matthew Walker.

Russia in the Shadows Illustrated Edition

Russia in the Shadows  Illustrated Edition
Author: H. G. Wells
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1406898589

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Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer prolific in many genres. He wrote dozens of novels, short stories, works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography, and even two books on recreational war games which set out the rules for fighting battles with toy soldiers. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, notably The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Wells visited Russia on three occasions: in 1914, 1920 and 1934. During his second visit he saw his old friend Maxim Gorky, with whose help he met with Lenin. In this book published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express, he portrays Russia as recovering from a total social collapse, minimising the role of the Bolsheviks in the fall of the Russian state, and describes Lenin as a pragmatic leader. Illustrated with photographs.

H G Wells Collected Works

H  G  Wells  Collected Works
Author: H. G. Wells
Publsiher: Good Press
Total Pages: 7349
Release: 2023-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:8596547791898

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Good Press Publishing presents to you this ultimate collection of novels, short stories and essays, by the visionary author, the "father of science fiction" - H. G. Wells:_x000D_ The Time Machine_x000D_ The Undying Fire_x000D_ The War in the Air_x000D_ The War of the Worlds_x000D_ The World Set Free_x000D_ A Modern Utopia_x000D_ When the Sleeper Wakes_x000D_ Ann Veronica_x000D_ Bealby_x000D_ In the Days of the Comet_x000D_ The Chronic Argonauts_x000D_ The First Men in the Moon_x000D_ The Invisible Man_x000D_ The Island of Dr Moreau_x000D_ The New Machiavelli_x000D_ The Passionate Friends_x000D_ The Prophetic Trilogy_x000D_ The Research Magnificent_x000D_ The Sea Lady_x000D_ The Secret Places of the Heart_x000D_ The Soul of a Bishop_x000D_ Tono-bungay_x000D_ Collections of Short Stories_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ A Catastrophe_x000D_ A Deal in Ostriches_x000D_ A Dream of Armageddon_x000D_ A Slip Under the Microscope_x000D_ A Story of the Days to Come_x000D_ A Story of the Stone Age_x000D_ A Tale of the Twentieth Century_x000D_ A Talk with Gryllotalpa_x000D_ How Gabriel Became Thompson_x000D_ How Pingwill Was Routed_x000D_ In the Abyss_x000D_ Le Mari Terrible_x000D_ Miss Winchelsea's Heart_x000D_ Mr. Brisher's Treasure_x000D_ Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation_x000D_ Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger_x000D_ Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland_x000D_ My First Aeroplane_x000D_ Our Little Neighbour_x000D_ Perfect Gentleman on Wheels_x000D_ Pollock and the Porroh Man_x000D_ The Empire of the Ants_x000D_ The Flying Man_x000D_ The Grisly Folk_x000D_ The Inexperienced Ghost_x000D_ The Land Ironclads_x000D_ The Lord of the Dynamos_x000D_ The Loyalty of Esau Common_x000D_ The Magic Shop_x000D_ The Man Who Could Work Miracles_x000D_ The Man with a Nose_x000D_ The Moth_x000D_ The New Accelerator_x000D_ The New Faust_x000D_ The Obliterated Man_x000D_ The Pearl of Love_x000D_ The Presence by the Fire_x000D_ The Purple Pileus_x000D_ The Rajah's Treasure_x000D_ The Reconciliation_x000D_ The Red Room_x000D_ The Sea Raiders_x000D_ The Star_x000D_ The Stolen Body_x000D_ The Story of the Last Trump_x000D_ The Story of the Stone Age_x000D_ The Temptation of Harringay_x000D_ The Thing in No. 7_x000D_ The Thumbmark_x000D_ The Treasure in the Forest_x000D_ The Wild Asses of the Devil_x000D_ Through a Window_x000D_ Under the Knife_x000D_ Walcote_x000D_ Wayde's Essence_x000D_ Essays and Articles:_x000D_ A Short History of the World_x000D_ Floor Games_x000D_ Little Wars_x000D_ New Worlds for Old_x000D_ Russia in the Shadows_x000D_ The Misery of Boots_x000D_ The Outline of History_x000D_ Zoological Retrogression_x000D_ What Is Coming_x000D_ ...

H G WELLS Ultimate Collection

H  G  WELLS Ultimate Collection
Author: H. G. Wells
Publsiher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 7351
Release: 2023-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:8596547749097

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This carefully crafted ebook: "H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of fiction works, history and politics. Wells is called a father of science fiction. Table of Contents: A Modern Utopia Ann Veronica Bealby In the Days of the Comet The Chronic Argonauts The First Men in the Moon The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Prophetic Trilogy The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Soul of a Bishop The Time Machine The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The World Set Free Tono-bungay When the Sleeper Wakes Collections of Short Stories Short Stories: A Catastrophe A Deal in Ostriches A Dream of Armageddon A Slip Under the Microscope A Story of the Days to Come A Story of the Stone Age A Tale of the Twentieth Century A Talk with Gryllotalpa How Gabriel Became Thompson How Pingwill Was Routed In the Abyss Le Mari Terrible Miss Winchelsea's Heart Mr. Brisher's Treasure Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland My First Aeroplane Our Little Neighbour Perfect Gentleman on Wheels Pollock and the Porroh Man The Empire of the Ants The Flying Man The Grisly Folk The Inexperienced Ghost The Land Ironclads The Lord of the Dynamos The Loyalty of Esau Common The Magic Shop The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Man with a Nose The Moth The New Accelerator The New Faust The Obliterated Man The Pearl of Love The Presence by the Fire The Purple Pileus The Rajah's Treasure The Reconciliation The Red Room The Sea Raiders The Star The Stolen Body The Story of the Last Trump The Story of the Stone Age The Temptation of Harringay The Thing in No. 7 The Thumbmark The Treasure in the Forest The Wild Asses of the Devil ...