Shadows of the Future - Parrinder, Patrick
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Shadows of the Future identifies the attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. The book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows how throughout his life he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways.

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Shadows of the Future identifies the attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. The book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows how throughout his life he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways.
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Patrick Parrinder, a leading international authority on H. G. Wells, is professor of English in the University of Reading and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, McGill University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was chairman of the H. G. Wells Society. Parrinder is the author or editor of numerous works on Wells, as well as the author of James Joyce, The Failure of Theory: Essays on Criticism and Contemporary Fiction, and Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism 1750-1990.