Democracy Under Revision.

WELLS, H.G.

Item Number: 109056

London: Hogarth Press, 1927.

First edition in book form of Wells’ lecture delivered at the Sorbonne on March 15th, 1927. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A very nice example.

Often referred to as the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, English writer H.G. Wells was prolific in many genres, publishing dozens of novels and novellas in addition to treatises on social commentary, history, and two books on recreational war games. Although he is now most remembered for his works of science fiction, during his lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of Utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and the internet.