"The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind"
| Title | "The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" |
| Year for Search | 1913 |
| Authors | Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge](1866-1946) |
| Tertiary Authors | Wells, H. G. |
| Secondary Title | The English Review |
| Volume / Edition | 16 - 17 |
| Pagination | 13-42, 186-210, 321-41, 468-94; 30-57, 179-209 |
| Date Published | December 1913 - May 1914 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia. |
| Additional Publishers | Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. |
| Holding Institutions | L |
| Author Note | (1866-1946) |
| Full Text | 1913-14 Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge] (1866-1946). “The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind.” The English Review 16 - 17 (December 1913 - May 1914): 13-42, 186-210, 321-41, 468-94; 30-57, 179-209. Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. L Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia. |
