Zusammenfassung
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Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love ideas as much as plot, and enjoy Wells the social thinker as well as the inventor of scientific romance, with visions of humanity's future, education and shared purpose.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
The Dream is a novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1924. It joins two worlds that sit far apart in time. One is a calm, well-ordered future in which humanity lives under a single shared plan. The other is the crowded, quarrelsome, wasteful world of the early twentieth century, the world Wells and his first readers knew.
The link between them is a dream. A man of the future named Sarnac dreams a whole life, lived long ago as an ordinary Englishman. Wells wrote it in the years after the First World War, when he was pressing hard for world order, schooling and shared knowledge. In this summary you will meet the dreamer, the life he dreams, and the questions the contrast raises. We begin with the future from which Sarnac looks back.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A dreamer wakes in a better worldFree
- 2Sarnac lives as Harry Mortimer Smith
- 3The old world is shown as waste
- 4A novel built as a lesson
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A dreamer wakes in a better world
The story begins in the future, where Sarnac lives in a world that has put its old troubles behind it. People there are healthy, educated and free from the fear of war and want. Wells uses this setting to show what he hopes humanity might become.
Sarnac does not simply wander through it. He has had a dream so vivid and so long that it feels like memory. In it he was another man, in another age, with another name and a hard, narrow life. That dream is the heart of the book.
The frame matters because it tells us how to read what follows. The listener sits in a calm future and looks back at the past as a strange and painful country. We are asked to judge our own time through the eyes of people who have outgrown it.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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