{"product_id":"inventing-tomorrow-h-g-wells-and-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. G. Wells played a central role in defining the intellectual, political, and literary character of the twentieth century. A prolific literary innovator, he coined such concepts as \"time machine,\" \"war of the worlds,\" and \"atomic bomb,\" exerting vast influence on popular ideas of time and futurity, progress and decline, and humanity's place in the universe. Wells was a public intellectual with a worldwide readership. He met with world leaders, including Roosevelt, Lenin, Stalin, and Churchill, and his books were international best-sellers. Yet critics and scholars have largely forgotten his accomplishments or relegated them to genre fiction, overlooking their breadth and diversity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInventing Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells's work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wells's limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, \u003ci\u003eInventing Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that he offers a timely model for literature's moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Cole is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and dean of humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eModernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eAt the Violet Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160363110535,"sku":"9780231193139","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/259c24c213962369d2faa61a90f5ad57.webp?v=1733273691","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/inventing-tomorrow-h-g-wells-and-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}