With The Outline of History Wells started a craze that lasted throughout the 1920s for copycat outlines on every conceivable subject. Coming right after the carnage of World War I, the Outline was neither unduly pessimistic and cynical about the human condition nor Pollyannaish about humanity’s future. Instead, it offered an account of the development of the world’s civilizations up to the present, showing its readers that an enlightened future depended on a clear, unprejudiced vi...
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Born in 1866 in Bromley, England, to a poor family, Herbert George Wells began as an apprentice at the age of 14, but educated himself on his own, received a scholarship (1884)...
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 1843 ● ISBN 9782322171507 ● 文件大小 1.6 MB ● 出版者 Books on Demand ● 发布时间 2019 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7420264 ● 复制保护 社会DRM