Outline of History, The: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	H. G. Wells
	Narrator :	Bernard Mayes

	Length :	44 hours 31 minutes (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$49.99

Format :		Downloadable MP3

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Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of science-fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The work became immensely popular, earning him world renown and solidifying his reputation as one of the influential voices of his time. HERBERT GEORGE WELLS (1866-1946), born in Bromley, Kent, England, was apprenticed to a drygoodsman and a druggist before he made his way to the Royal College of Science where he studied biology. The first great writer of science fiction, he was also a prophet, journalist, and spokesman for progress. Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.

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All 20th Century 21st Century American Ancient Biographical British Foreign Language Content Military Music Related Pre 1900 Social & Economic World Miscellaneous

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