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Название книги: The World Set Free
Автор(ы): H. Wells
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-World-Set-Free-201634.html
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WE AREALL THINGS THATMAKE AND PASS,STRIVING UPON AHIDDEN MISSION,OUT TO THEOPENSEA.
THE WORLD SET FREEH.G. WELLS
TOFREDERICK SODDY'S'INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM'THIS STORY, WHICH OWES LONG PASSAGESTO THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OFTHAT BOOK, ACKNOWLEDGESAND INSCRIBESITSELF
PREFACE
THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias ofpossibility, stories which all turn on the possible developmentsin the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. TheWorld Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of theGreat War. Every intelligent person in the world felt thatdisaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few ofus realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was tous. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put offuntil the year 1956. He may naturally want to know the reasonfor what will seem now a quite extraordinary delay. As aprophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined tobe
Название книги: The World Set Free
Автор(ы): H. Wells
Жанр: Классическая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-World-Set-Free-201634.html
by
WE AREALL THINGS THATMAKE AND PASS,STRIVING UPON AHIDDEN MISSION,OUT TO THEOPENSEA.
THE WORLD SET FREEH.G. WELLS
TOFREDERICK SODDY'S'INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM'THIS STORY, WHICH OWES LONG PASSAGESTO THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OFTHAT BOOK, ACKNOWLEDGESAND INSCRIBESITSELF
PREFACE
THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias ofpossibility, stories which all turn on the possible developmentsin the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. TheWorld Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of theGreat War. Every intelligent person in the world felt thatdisaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few ofus realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was tous. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put offuntil the year 1956. He may naturally want to know the reasonfor what will seem now a quite extraordinary delay. As aprophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined tobe
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