TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1923 A1 - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a eutopia 2000 years in the future. Although there is little of the eutopia, it is presented as having overcome the economic and social problems of Wells's time and is reminiscent of his 1923 Men Like Gods. The dystopia reads like one of Wells's novels describing the problems of the poor prior to World War I. One emphasis is on the ignorance of sexual relations in the past contrasted to the free and open sexual relations of the future.

JF - Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine VL - 72-73 N1 -

Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an "Introduction" by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 329-654. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.

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Some installments have the subtitle "A Story of the World of To-day told by a Man of the Future."

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Illus. Herbert Morton Stoops

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