Margaret Cavendish

The Blazing World and Other Writings

Mitarbeit:Lilley, Kate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the description of "The New Blazing World" (1666) - one of the earliest pieces of science fiction writing. It attempts, in the manner of contemporary utopian fantasies, to tell the story of a voyage to another world where speculative science reigns.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 41185
• 1994.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 127mm x 193mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780140433722
• ISBN-10: 0140433724
• Artikelnr.: 21147494

Autorenporträt

Margaret Cavendish

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Margaret Cavendish
POETRY FROM POEMS AND FANCIES
Of Many Worlds in this World
The Soul's Garment
Of Stars
Motion Directs, While Atoms Dance
Motion Makes Atoms a Bawd for Figure
Nature Calls a Council, Which is Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life To Advise About Making the World
A Dialogue Betwixt Riches and Poverty
Of the Ant
Of the Knowledge of Beasts
Of Fish
Earth's Complaint
The Clasp
The Hunting of the Hare
Nature's Oven
Nature's [Wine] Cellar
A Dialogue Between an Oak, and a Man Cutting it Down
from 'A Dialogue betwixt Birds'
STORIES
The Blazing World
The Travelling Spirits
The Ambitious Traitor
Assaulted and Pursued Chastity
PROSE
from Orations of Diverse Sorts
from Sociable Letters
from 'A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life'
PLAYS
The Unnatural Tragedy
The Convent of Pleasure
Explanatory Notes