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Edward Shanks
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The People of the Ruins
Jeremy Tuft an investigator in physics is accidentally frozen by a suspended animation ray. He wakes up 150 years in the future. Not only have his fellow Englishmen forgotten all they used to know they don't care to relearn any of it.He finds this new technocratic era simpler and peaceful until the northern English and Welsh tribes band together to invade London.
The People of the Ruins Illustrated
Edward Richard Buxton Shanks was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I. He was an academic, journalist, literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in World War I with the British Army in France, but was invalided out in 1915, and did administrative work. He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He then wrote for the Evening Standard, to 1935. His works include: Songs, Hilaire Bello: The Man and his Work, The Queen of China, The People of the Ruins, The Island of Youth, Poems 1912-1932, Tom Tiddler's Ground, Old King Cole, Edgar Allan Poe, Queer Street, Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Literature and Political Ideas and Poems 1939-1952.
The Island of Youth
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The People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks
Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later -- in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes threaten London -- at which point he sets about reinventing weapons of mass destruction. Shanks's post-apocalyptic novel, a pessimistic satire on Wellsian techno-utopian novels, was first published in 1920.
Cambridge Poets of the Great War
This anthology contains 155 poems by forty-nine poets, all of whom have connections with Cambridge University. The poems have been selected to represent a comprehensive range of responses: patriotic, protest, satirical, realistic, elegiac, pastoral, and homoerotic. The introduction provides analytical notes on all the poems. Three appendixes discuss Charles Sorley's comments on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon's statement of protest, and A.E. Tomlinson's scathing attack on Brooke.
