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The main protagonist of Men Like Gods is Mr Barnstaple, a careful driver and depressive journalist writing for The Liberal newspaper. It is to his consternation, therefore, that while carefully motoring along the Maidenhead road he skids on a bend and finds himself in another world altogether - in short, a supposed Utopia. This Utopia has its own socialist government and is very similar to the ...
Abstract. Men Like Gods, written in 1921–2 after Wells had completed his monumental Outline of History, has been largely bypassed by modern academic criticism. Because its apparent tone is one of facile idealism — the novel describes a visit by a group of representative Englishmen and women to a Utopian paradise — it has been bracketed ...
3 p.l., vii-viii, 304 p. ; 19 1/2 cm
10 de nov. de 2020 · Men Like Gods (Collins Classics) Paperback – November 10, 2020. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure that will change how he views the world forever.
6 de set. de 2016 · During the quarantine his fellow time travelers decide that they can conquer this idyllic world and live like kings. Barnstaple must decide if he will join them or betray his own kind to protect utopia. Men Like Gods was the first novel of it's kind a blend of science fiction and fantasy. It's influence forever changed genre fiction creating ...
Men Like Gods works better as a novel than many of Wells' other more or less science-fictional social satires. He takes care to give us a real landscape, not just happy nude Utopians lecturing the stranded Earthlings. Barnstaple boats across the waters of a reservoir to see the view from the dam.
Description. Men Like Gods is a book by English author H. G. Wells, first published in 1923. Set in the summer of 1921, the story involves Mr. Barnstaple, a journalist who, becoming tired of his job, decides to take a holiday on his own. His plans for a quiet break are interrupted when his car is accidentally transported to another dimension ...
