A Modern Utopia
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940023915203 (002391520X)
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Dystopia,
Utopia
This is so witty and funny! Especially compared to „classic“ utopias. Wells was obviously well versed in the tradition of utopian writing and took it upon himself to create a modern version of it by learning from the mistakes of past writers instead of repeating them and by adding a good portion of ...
As much as I admire H.G. Wells, I still always find myself struggling to finish utopian novels. Despite his interesting ideas and the honorific of "classic" and "canonical", I'm afraid that I fell into the same complaints with A Modern Utopia as with many others: it is dry, overly-reliant on descrip...