{"product_id":"inventing-tomorrow-h-g-wells-and-the-twentieth-century-9780231193122","title":"Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century","description":"\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 humanitys 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.  In Inventing Tomorrow  Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wellss 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 Wellss 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  Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literatures moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652243087413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231193122","price":74.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231193122.jpg?v=1781850234","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/inventing-tomorrow-h-g-wells-and-the-twentieth-century-9780231193122","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}