Patrick Parrinder is a leading authority on H.G Wells and his book Shadows of the Future won the 1996 University of California Eaton Award. He is author of Nation and Novel (2006) and General Editor of the ongoing 12-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English. A Fellow of the English Association, he is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Reading.
28 Ebooks door Patrick Parrinder
Patrick Parrinder: Utopian Literature and Science
Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo’s observations with the telescope to current ideas of the …
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€96.29
Patrick Parrinder: Nation and Novel
What is ‘English’ about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel’s profound differences from poetry and drama affect its r …
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€34.66
Patrick Parrinder: Nation and Novel
What is ‘English’ about the English novel, and how has the idea of the English nation been shaped by the writers of fiction? How do the novel’s profound differences from poetry and drama affect its r …
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€34.56
Patrick Parrinder: H.G. Wells
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. < …
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€385.91
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction
First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the theme …
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€27.94
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction
First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the theme …
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€28.24
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction
First published in 1979. This volume presents Science Fiction as a coherent system, not as a collection of facts or random sequence of individual voices. The contributors are concerned with less with …
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€64.00
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction
First published in 1979. This volume presents Science Fiction as a coherent system, not as a collection of facts or random sequence of individual voices. The contributors are concerned with less with …
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€64.19
Parrinder Patrick Parrinder: Authors and Authority
The second edition of this lively and trenchant one-volume history of literary criticism in English includes new assessments of the work of T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, F.R. Leavis, the American New Cr …
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€109.11
H. G. Wells: Time Machine
‘The father of science fiction’ Guardian The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802, 701 AD, when he is …
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€5.49
Patrick Parrinder & John S. Partington: The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a ”seismograph of his age”. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and p …
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€43.58
Alien Invasion Short Stories
New authors and collections. Visitors from other planets have long obsessed us. H.G. Wells’ War of Worlds spawned a huge wave of speculative fiction but the roots of such fears run deep in our litera …
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€12.83
H.G. Wells Short Stories
New curated collections. H.G. Wells, one of the founding fathers of science fiction created a rich universe of short stories, many of which are collected here in this special deluxe edition. The Star …
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€12.73
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work …
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€37.36
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range fr …
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€37.45
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching
This book, first published in 1980, examines issues such as the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. In order to work …
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€36.96
Patrick Parrinder: Science Fiction: A Critical Guide
This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range fr …
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€37.23
H. G. Wells: Sleeper Awakes
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made …
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€8.49
Leah Cypess & Ronald Ferguson: Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)
An anthology of visionary new stories from Chinese and English-language writers, featuring three Hugo Award-nominated tales. If you love the mission of science fiction, the exchange between cultures, …
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€5.86
Patrick Parrinder & John S. Partington: The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a ”seismograph of his age”. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and p …
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€43.44
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.25
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.26
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 1
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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.19
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 3
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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.44
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 3
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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.44
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 1
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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.44
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 2
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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.06
Patrick Parrinder & David Smith: Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 2
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 2000 letters, both b …
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€64.59
