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Men Like Gods 3. One thing was very clear in his mind. Not a word of this holiday must be breathed at home. If once Mrs. Barnstaple got wind of it, he knew exactly ...
Men Like Gods. "Men Like Gods" is a 1922 novel written by H. G. Wells. It features a utopian parallel universe. The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper "The Liberal." At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of ...
In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future.
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.
- H. G. Wells
Men like Gods, written seventeen years after In the Days of the Comet, and not included in this volume, was almost the last of my scientific fantasies. It did not horrify or frighten, was not much of a success, and by that time I had tired of talking in playful parables to a world engaged in destroying itself.
Men Like Gods and other novels like it provoked Aldous Huxley to write Brave New World (1932), a parody and critique of Wellsian utopian ideas. [9] Wells himself later commented on the novel: "It did not horrify or frighten, was not much of a success, and by that time, I had tired of talking in playful parables to a world engaged in destroying itself."
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 with his other Utopian speculations and dismissed as Wells at ...
