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British Short-fiction Writers, 1880-1914
Information on the lives and works of some of the outstanding British writers who published short fiction in the romantic tradition during the years 1880-1914.
A History of the Colonization of Africa by Alien Races
Part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this 1913 edition extensively changes the 1899 original, and expresses Sir Harry Johnston's (1858-1927) perspective on African colonization.
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich. Supplement
Contents: 1. 1889-1893.--2. 1894-1898.--3. 1899-1903.
H.G. Wells
Robert Crossley provides a comprehensive examination of Wells's best-known SF and fantasy works-and their impact on later writers and thinkers. Complete with Chronology, Primary and Secondary Bibliographies, and Index.
Science Fiction Before 1900
Paul Alkon analyzes several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He places the work in context and discusses the genre and its relation to other kinds of literature.
Prelude to Imperialism
In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their relations with and attitudes to African tribal societies. The author presents a broad survey of tribal life, an analysis of culture contact, and an extended discussion of the underlying assumptions of the British evaluation of Africans and of the conditions in which they lived. The description of African social conditions and the analysis of grass roots imperialism constitute important contributions to the debate on Western imperialism.
The Correspondence of H.G. Wells: Volumes 1–4
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and while a few are business – to publishers, agents and secretaries – the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as ‘Mark Benney’, who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah ...
