Man Who Could Work Miracles

A Critical Text of the 1936 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

By:

H.G.Wells

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The Annotated H.G. Wells

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Man Who Could Work Miracles (without a The) is a 1937 film, ostensibly a comedy, that H.G. Wells scripted late in life for London Film Productions. This work is a literary text of the scenario and dialogue published in advance of the movie's release. Wells himself says it is a companion piece to Things to Come, his deadly serious film done a year before, also produced by Alexander Korda. The editor's introduction explains how two such radically different films are related and discusses the artistic quality of the text, Wells' overriding sense of cosmic vision, his views on sex and politics, and his uncommon estimate of the common man's incapacity for public affairs. The world's foremost Wellsian scholar here brings his unique analytical powers to bear on, in the opinion of many, the strangest work Wells ever wrote. The appendices include the 1898 short story version, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, three related cosmic-vision short stories by Wells, and an excerpt from a 1931 radio address by Wells not inaccurately retitled If I Were Dictator of the World.

Author Biography:

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

Release date Australia

April 12th, 2012

Author

H.G.Wells

Series

The Annotated H.G. Wells

Contributor

Edited by Leon Stover

Pages

152

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

3 photographs, annotations

ISBN-13

9780786468768

Product ID

20397054

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