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The time ship : a chrononautical journey /
"H.G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronopete--"He who flies against time"--Eight years before Wells's influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Time Ship's Place in the History of Science Fiction; Chapter 1: In Which It Is Proved That FORWARD Is Not the Byword of Progress; Chapter 2: A Lecture within Everyone's Reach; Chapter 3: Theory of Time: How It Is Made, How It Is Unmade; Chapter 4: Which Deals with Family Affairs; Chapter 5: Cupid and Mars; Chapter 6: The Vehicle as School of Morality; Chapter 7: Away!; Chapter 8: Retroactive Effects; Chapter 9: The Gradual Reduction and Ultimate Elimination of the Army.
- Chapter 10: In Which a Seemingly Insignificant Yet Greatly Important Incident Takes PlaceChapter 11: A Bit of Tiresome, Though Necessary, Erudition; Chapter 12: Forty-eight Hours in the Celestial Empire; Chapter 13: Nineteenth-century Europe Meets Third-century China; Chapter 14: An Unexpected Guest; Chapter 15: The Resurrection of the Dead before Judgment Day; Chapter 16: Where All Is Explained and All Is Entangled; Chapter 17: Bread and Circuses; Chapter 18: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi; Chapter 19: Shipwrecked in the Sky; Chapter 20: The Best One; Not Because It's Better but Because It's Last.