"The Dream"
| Title | "The Dream" |
| Year for Search | 1923 |
| Authors | Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge](1866-1946) |
| Tertiary Authors | Wells, H. G. |
| Secondary Title | Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine |
| Volume / Edition | 72-73 |
| Pagination | See Full Text |
| Date Published | November 1923 - May 1924 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Title Note | Some installments have the subtitle "A Story of the World of To-day told by a Man of the Future." |
| Illustration | Illus. Herbert Morton Stoops |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, L, O, PSt |
| Author Note | (1866-1946) |
| Full Text | 1923-24 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge] (1866-1946). “The Dream” [Some installments have the subtitle] “A Story of the World of To-day told by a Man of the Future.” Illus Herbert Morton Stoops. Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine 72 - 73 (November 1923 - May 1924): 18-24, 80, 82, 84-88, 90, 92; 20-24, 93-102, 105; 14-20, 70, 72, 74; 40-47, 91-92, 94-95; 10-15, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94; 56-62, 64, 66, 68, 70; 42-47, 121-26. Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. U.S. 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. DLC, L, O, PSt 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. |
