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Book Synopsis A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quicklet on H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (CliffNotes-like Book Summary and Analysis) by : Joseph Taglieri
Download or read book Quicklet on H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (CliffNotes-like Book Summary and Analysis) written by Joseph Taglieri and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK H.G. Wells’ classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds is a timeless story of interplanetary invasion and resistance. First published in 1898, it is arguably the earliest, if not the most well-known, of the early stories of Earth being subjugated by extraterrestrials. Generations of science fiction books, comics, radio, television and film pieces have in one way or another reworked this seminal tale in one way or another. The most noteworthy example is Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast based on the novel. It created a state of hysteria to many within range of the WABC radio signal on Halloween night as listeners mistook it for a news broadcast rather than a fictional radio play. Welles’ adaptation of the novel set the story in New York rather than Victorian England and used the guise of newsflash reports to intensify the dramatic, seemingly real perception that the country was indeed being invaded by aliens (War of the Worlds Invasion: The Historical Perspective, War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast (1938) Part 1). Films such as Steven Spielberg’s 2005 version have also served to immortalize this seminal story. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK After several days in hiding without food or drink, the narrator emerges in “Chapter 5: The Stillness” and finds the Martians have abandoned their camp. He observes the devastated, lifeless town and what’s left of the pit: “All the machinery had gone. Save for the big mound of greyish-blue powder in one corner, certain bars of the aluminum in another, the black birds, and the skeletons of the killed, the place was merely an empty circular pit in the sand.” The title of Chapter 6, “The Work of Fifteen Days,” refers to the broader destruction suffered throughout England and the increasing signs of Martian dominance—namely the purveyance of the invasive red weed that was all around—as the narrator makes his way out of Mortlake. “The Man on Putney Hill,” the title of Chapter 7, is the artilleryman. This chance reunion with the narrator reveals the Martians have constructed a massive encampment near London. The two have a lengthy conversation about the downgraded status of mankind to a very beast-like state, according to the artilleryman’s analysis of the circumstances. The narrator, however, “resolved to leave this strange undisciplined dreamer of great things to his drink and gluttony, and to go on into London. There it seemed, to me, I had the best chance of learning what the Martians and my fellowmen were doing.” Chapters 8–10 At any rate, whether we expect another invasion or not, our views of the human future must be greatly modified by these events. We have learned not that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man; we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space. It may be that in the larger design of the universe this invasion from Mars is not without its ultimate benefit for men; it has robbed us of that serene confidence in the future which is the most fruitful source of decadence, the gifts to human science it has brought are enormous, and it has done much to promote the conception of the commonweal of mankind. Buy the book to continue reading! Follow @hyperink on Twitter! Visit us at www.facebook.com/hyperink! Go to www.hyperink.com to join our newsletter and get awesome freebies! CHAPTER OUTLINE Background and Basics + About the Book + Introducing the Author + Overall Summary Discussion and Analysis + Book One: Chapter-by-Chapter Summary and Commentary + Book Two: Chapter-by-Chapter Summary and Commentary Key Information + Character List + Notable Terms and Definitions + Major Themes and Symbols + Interesting Related Facts References + Sources + Additional Reading ...and much more
Book Synopsis The War of the Worlds Illustrated by : H G Wells
Download or read book The War of the Worlds Illustrated written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.
Book Synopsis The War of the Worlds by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The War of the Worlds written by H. G. Wells and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic science fiction tale in which, as life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the Earth.
Book Synopsis The Time Machine illustrated by : H. G. Wells
Download or read book The Time Machine illustrated written by H. G. Wells and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction classic, which lends itself well to visualization. This version, illustrated by Yoann Laurent-Rouault, an illustrator master who graduated from the Beaux-Arts, and published in the international literary collection Memoria Books, is a reference on the time travel theme. Wells transports us in the year 802 701, in a society made up of the “Elois”, who live peacefully in a kind of big Garden of Eden, eating fruits and sleeping high up, while underground lives another species, also descending from men, the “Morlocks”, who do not stand the light anymore, living in the dark for too long now. At night, they return to the surface, going back up by the wells, in order to kidnap some Elois that they eat ; these last became livestock unknowingly. In The Time Machine, made into a movie several times, the last of them in 2002 by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of H. G. Wells, time is both a pretext to move the class struggle and warn... and also, in a way, a full character, who fascinates, arbitrates, transcends... The illustrations come to reinforce the time travel and provide a new experience to the reader.
Download or read book Graphic Revolve written by H. G. Wells and published by Raintree Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Matrix of Visual Culture by : Patricia Pisters
Download or read book The Matrix of Visual Culture written by Patricia Pisters and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Hercules by : Martin Powell
Download or read book The Adventures of Hercules written by Martin Powell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this graphic retelling, Hercules, son of a Zeus and a mortal woman, encounters and defeats monsters such as the Nemean lion, and a sea monster.
Download or read book Star Begotten written by H.G. Wells and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.G. Wells’s second Martian invasion comes from within.
Book Synopsis Self-Reference in the Media by : Winfried Nöth
Download or read book Self-Reference in the Media written by Winfried Nöth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels. The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and examine original studies from the worlds of print advertising, photography, film, television, computer games, media art, web art, and music. A wide range of different media products and topics are discussed including self-promotion on TV, the TV show Big Brother, the TV format "historytainment," media nostalgia, the documentation of documentation in documentary films, Marilyn Monroe in photographs, humor and paradox in animated films, metacommunication in computer games, metapictures, metafiction, metamusic, body art, and net art.
Download or read book Narrating Utopia written by Chris Ferns and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organising the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveller's tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing.
Book Synopsis H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies by : Keith Williams
Download or read book H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies written by Keith Williams and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates WellsOCOs interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. It plugs a gap in understanding WellsOCOs contribution to exploring and advancing the possibilities of cinematic narrative and its social and ideological impacts in the modern period. Previous studies concentrate on adaptations: this book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic techniques and concerns of WellsOCOs texts. It also focuses on contemporary film-making OCyin dialogueOCO with his ideas. Alongside HollywoodOCOs later transactions, it gives equal weight to neglected British and continental European dimensions. Chapter 1 shows how early writings ( The Time Machine and short stories) feature many kinds of radically defamiliarised vision. These constitute imaginative speculations about the forms and potentials of moving image and electronic media. Chapter 2 discusses the power of voyeurism, OCyabsent presenceOCO and the disjunction of sound-image reproduction implied in The Invisible Man and its topical politics, updated in notable screen versions. Chapter 3 extends this to dystopian warnings of systematic surveillance, broadcasting of celebrity personae and OCypost-literateOCO video culture in When the Sleeper Wakes, a crucial template for urban futures on film. Chapter 4 analyses WellsOCOs belated return to screenwriting in the 1930s. It accounts for his OCybroadbrowOCO ambition of mediating between popular and avant-garde tendencies to promote his cause and its mixed results in Things to Come, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, etc. Chapter 5 finally surveys WellsOCOs legacy on both small and large screens. It considers whether, as well as being raided for scenarios for spectacular effects, his subtexts still nourish an evolving tradition of alternative SF, which duly critiques the innovations and applications of its host media."
Book Synopsis Epigraphia Carnatica by : Benjamin Lewis Rice
Download or read book Epigraphia Carnatica written by Benjamin Lewis Rice and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epigraphia Carnatica is a scholarly work by Benjamin Lewis Rice and the Mysore Archaeological Department. The book provides a comprehensive survey of the inscriptions found in the Hassan District of southern India, with detailed translations and commentaries. This book is an invaluable resource for historians and linguists alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Horror, The Film Reader by : Mark Jancovich
Download or read book Horror, The Film Reader written by Mark Jancovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, and outlines the main critical debates. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of horror film, and features an editor's introduction outlining the context of debates.
Book Synopsis King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table by : Howard Pyle
Download or read book King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table written by Howard Pyle and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Pyle's classic tale of magic, bravery, and honor tells of the adventures of King Arthur. From the time young Arthur pulled the fabled sword from the stone, he was a just king. As the head of the Round Table, King Arthur led the most gallant men and brought peace to the land. King Arthur's most dramatic struggles are retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Pyle's King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.
Book Synopsis The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (Book Analysis) by : Bright Summaries
Download or read book The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The War of the Worlds with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells, which tells the story of a Martian invasion on Earth and man’s struggle to fight back and reclaim the planet, presenting the reader with fundamental questions on human values and man’s place in the universe. This classic piece of science fiction has never been out of print, showing its exceptional popularity, and it has even influenced the work of real-life scientists. Wells was a prolific English writer who is often called the "Father of Science Fiction" and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature four times, although he never won. His works have continued to inspire science fiction writers, and many readers continue to enjoy his enthralling novels today. Find out everything you need to know about The War of the Worlds in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Book Synopsis Infinite in All Directions by : Freeman J. Dyson
Download or read book Infinite in All Directions written by Freeman J. Dyson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infinite in All Directions is a popularized science at its best. In Dyson's view, science and religion are two windows through which we can look out at the world around us. The book is a revised version of a series of the Gifford Lectures under the title "In Praise of Diversity" given at Aberdeen, Scotland. They allowed Dyson the license to express everything in the universe, which he divided into two parts in polished prose: focusing on the diversity of the natural world as the first, and the diversity of human reactions as the second half. Chapter 1 is a brief explanation of Dyson's attitudes toward religion and science. Chapter 2 is a one–hour tour of the universe that emphasizes the diversity of viewpoints from which the universe can be encountered as well as the diversity of objects which it contains. Chapter 3 is concerned with the history of science and describes two contrasting styles in science: one welcoming diversity and the other deploring it. He uses the cities of Manchester and Athens as symbols of these two ways of approaching science. Chapter 4, concerned with the origin of life, describes the ideas of six illustrious scientists who have struggled to understand the nature of life from various points of view. Chapter 5 continues the discussion of the nature and evolution of life. The question of why life characteristically tends toward extremes of diversity remains central in all attempts to understand life's place in the universe. Chapter 6 is an exercise in eschatology, trying to define possible futures for life and for the universe, from here to infinity. In this chapter, Dyson crosses the border between science and science fiction and he frames his speculations in a slightly theological context.
