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ISBN: 0141441046

ISBN13: 9780141441047

The Shape of Things to Come

Name: The shape of things to come - H.G.Wells
Item: The Shape of Things to Come
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By H.G. Wells

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Book Overview

When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his death up to 2105. The Shape of Things to Come provides this 'history of the future', an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes, including a Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare, and political instabilities in the Middle East.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0141441046

ISBN13:9780141441047

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:Penguin Books

Length:530 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Rated 5 stars
The shape of things to come - H.G.Wells

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 4, 2009

Excellent condition and very interesting reading - especially now in our troubled times. When will we learn that NO ONE wins in a war except a small handful of VERY GREEDY and IMMORAL people! Should be required reading in our schools.

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H. G. Wells - Conspirator.

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 16, 2007

_The Shape of Things to Come_ is the Penguin Classics edition of the novel first published in 1933 by the famous science fiction writer and British socialist H. G. Wells which provides an account of the "history of the future" and offers predictions as to what the future (at the time of writing) will bring. H. G. Wells envisioned this book in many ways to be a sequel to the historical work _The Outline of History_ (1930)...

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