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The origins of science fiction : from Mary Shelley to W.E.B. Du Bois /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford world's classics.
Subjects:
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • A Chronology of the Origins of Science Fiction
  • The Mortal Immortal / Mary Shelley
  • The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion / Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rappaccini's Daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien
  • The Lifted Veil / George Eliot
  • Pausodyne: A Great Chemical Discovery / Grant Allen
  • The Water-Devil: A Marine Tale / Frank R. Stockton
  • The Crystal Egg / H. G. Wells
  • 'Wireless' / Rudyard Kipling
  • The Hall Bedroom / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • The Country of the Blind / H. G. Wells
  • The Machine Stops / E. M. Forster
  • The Terror of Blue John Gap / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Red One / Jack London
  • Friend Island / Gertrude Barrows Bennett
  • The Comet / W. E. B. Dubois.