Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The World Peril of 1910" by George Chetwynd Griffith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 Esprios Classics written by GEORGE. GRIFFITH and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Griffith (1857-1906), full name George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, was a prolific British science fiction writer and noted explorer who wrote during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. Many of his visionary tales appeared in magazines such as Pearson's Magazine and Pearson's Weekly before being published as novels. Griffith was extremely popular in the United Kingdom, though he failed to find similar acclaim in the United States, in part due to his utopian socialist views. A journalist, rather than a scientist, by background, what his stories lack in scientific rigour and literary grace they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution. The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) remains his best and most famous work.
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Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 written by George Griffith and published by Aegypan. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can there be anything too horrible for the enemies of the Fatherland?" said the Kaiser to the pale Chancellor, with a glint in his eyes which no man in Germany cares to see. "I must ask pardon," replied the Chancellor. "I was astonished, indeed, almost . . . frightened, if your Majesty will allow me to say so -- frightened for the sake of Humanity, if such an awful invention as that becomes realized!" "And what is your opinion, Field Marshal?" asked the Kaiser. "A most excellent invention, your Majesty," said the Field Marshal, "provided that it belongs "only" to the Fatherland." Long before novels "2010," "2001," or "1984" riveted the world, George Griffith's "The World Peril of 1910" thrilled readers with its all-too-credible depiction of the dangers and opportunities ahead.
Download or read book World Peril Of 1910 written by George Griffith and published by Apogee Books. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 the most famous science fiction writer in England was George Griffith. His stories introduced an extraordinary array of technological marvels to an appreciative British audience but his novels were almost never published in America. Griffith is rarely considered to be in the same league as H.G. Wells but Wells admired Griffith for his ability to write great high adventure stories while packing them with plausible science and prophetic invention. In 1897 Griffith wrote The Great Crellin Comet, a short story that introduced the concept that technology could stave off Armageddon and could save humanity from suffering the ignominious fate of the dinosaurs. In the process Griffith invented the countdown, an eminently practical and dramatic tool that is still used today for space launches. In 1905 Griffith expanded this tale into a full fledged novel of science and romance, changing its name to The World Peril of 1910. For the first time in over a hundred years these two stories are reproduced here complete and unabridged.
Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 written by George Griffith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Peril of 1910 is a story by George Griffith. Griffith was a British science fiction writer and noted explorer. Excerpt: "THE scene had shifted back from the royal city of Potsdam to the little coast town in Connemara. John Castellan was sitting on a corner of his big writing-table swinging his legs to and fro, and looking a little uncomfortable. Leaning against the wall opposite the windows, with her hands folded behind her back, was a girl of about nineteen, an almost perfect incarnation of the Irish girl at her best. Tall, black-haired, black-browed, grey-eyed, perfectly-shaped, and with that indescribable charm of feature which neither the pen nor the camera can do justice to--Norah Castellan was facing him, her eyes gleaming and almost black with anger, and her whole body instinct with intense vitality."
Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a science fiction novel where Britain has been invaded because of the evil plans of an Irishman. The whole of the world is at war and it seems inevitable that life as we know it is about to disappear. There is also a huge comet hurtling towards Earth ...
Download or read book The World Peril Of 1910 written by George Griffith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1907, this little-known science fiction classic describes a planet beset by world war---a war involving super-weapons of almost inconceivable power---"Can there be anything too horrible for the enemies of the Fatherland?" said the Kaiser to the pale Chancellor, with a glint in his eyes which no man in Germany cares to see...While millions of people are dying, the Kaiser, the Tsar, the Kings of Holland & Belgium, and the President of France celebrate the war's continued victory in Canterbury, laughing as their submersible airships rain death on innocent Britons as their soldiers march ever closer toward London...The World Peril of 1910 is one of the first books to describe the potential of a comet impact with earth, it includes the world's first countdown...George Griffith thrilled readers with his all-too-credible depiction of the dangers of War, misplaced-nationalism, and the arms race that was coming.
Download or read book The World Peril of 1910 written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Clifden, the chief coast town of Connemara, there is a house at the end of a triangle which the two streets of the town form, the front windows of which look straight down the beautiful harbour and bay, whose waters stretch out beyond the islands which are scattered along the coast and, with the many submerged reefs, make the entrance so difficult.
Download or read book Edwardian Culture written by Samuel Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. Bringing together essays on literature, art, politics, religion, architecture, marketing, and imperial history, the study highlights the extent to which the culture and politics of Edwardian period were closely intertwined. The book builds upon recent scholarship that seeks to reclaim the term ‘Edwardian’ from prevalent, restrictive usages by venturing beyond the garden party – and the political rally – to uncover some of the terrain that lies between. The essays in the volume – which deal with both famous writers such as J. M. Barrie and Arnold Bennett, as well as many lesser-known figures – draw attention to the nuanced multiplicity of experience and cultural forms that existed during the period, and highlight the ways in which a closer examination of Edwardian culture complicates our definitions of ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modern’. The book argues that the Edwardian era, rather than constituting a coda to the Victorian period or a languid pause before modernism shook things up, possessed a compelling and creative tenor of its own.
Download or read book In an Unknown Prison Land written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the life of convicts and colonists being sent to and living in New Caledonia in Australia. In an Unknown Prison Land reads like a fictional story crossed with a non-fiction account of life as a prisoner. Follow the author on various expeditions to prison islands and lands. Learn about how convicts were treated, the standard daily routine and what life was really like. Complete with photographs and illustrations.
Download or read book Death Rays and the Popular Media 1876 1939 written by William J. Fanning, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death rays! Absurd idea peddled by con artists and amateurs and promoted by a sensationalist press? Not quite. Government and military leaders and mainstream scientists endorsed the possibility of such a fantastic weapon in the years before World War II. A concept born out of research with electricity and other energy sources, the death ray or "directed energy weapon" was widely reported for nearly five decades. Claims for its invention appeared as early as 1876, and increased thereafter, until the "death-ray craze" of the 1920s and 1930s. The idea influenced fiction, making its way from newspapers and magazines into novels, short stories, films, theatrical productions and other media. This book takes a first-ever look at the historical death ray and its impact on fiction and popular culture.
Download or read book Science fiction the Early Years written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
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Download or read book Academy a Weekly Review of Literature Learning Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
