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Tham khảo sách 'the angel of revolution: a tale of the coming terror', giải trí - thư giãn, truyện ngắn phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | feedboo is The Angel of Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Griffith George Published 1893 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction War Military Source http gutenberg.net.au 1 About Griffith George Griffith full name George Chetwyn Griffith-Jones 1857-1906 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 revolutionary and socialist views. A journalist rather than scientist by background what his stories lack in scientific rigour and literary grace they make up for in sheer exuberance of execution. To-night that spark was to be shaken from the torch of Revolution and to-morrow the first of the mines would explode. the armies of Europe would fight their way through the greatest war that the world had ever seen. From Griffith s most famous novel The Angel of the Revolution . He was the son of a vicar who became a school master in his mid twenties. After writing freelance articles in his spare time he joined a newspaper for a short spell then authored a series of secular pamphlets including Ananias The Atheist s God For the Attention of Charles Bradlaugh . After the success of Admiral Philip H. Colomb s The Great War of 1892 itself a version of the more famous The Battle of Dorking Griffith then on the staff of Pearson s Magazine submitted a synopsis for a story entitled The Angel of the Revolution . It remains his best and most famous work. It was the first synthesis of the marvel tale epitomised by Jules Verne featuring futuristic flying machines compressed air guns and spectacular areal combat the future war tales of Chesney and his imitators and the political utopianism of Morris s News from Nowhere. He wrote a sequel serialised as The
