Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future (Utopianism and Communitarianism) by Crossley, Robert

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1994 hardcover as pictured. A biography of William Olaf Stapledon, best known as a writer of mid 20th century science fiction. Binding is firm, boards clean. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Would be as new except for slight shelf wear and one inch ink mark on lower edge of text block. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OB3

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Hardback. New. William Olaf Stapledon is best remembered for the extraordinary works of speculative fiction he published between 1930 and 1950. As a novelist, he was known as the spokesman for the Age of Einstein and has influenced writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doris Lessing. This biography is the first to draw on a vast body of unpublished and private documents--interviews, correspondence, archival material, and papers in private hands--to reveal fully the internal struggles that shaped Stapledon's life and reclaim for public attention a distinctive voice of the modern era. Late in his life in an unpublished "letter to the future" Stapledon unwittingly provided the rationale for his biography: "It is just possible that my very obscurity may fit me to speak more faithfully for my period than any of its great unique personalities. A pacifist in World War I, an advocate of European unity and world government, one of the first teachers in… Read More

Syracuse University Press, 1994. Hardcover. New. 474 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches.

Syracuse University Press, 1994-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Syracuse University Press. hardcover. New. 5x1x8.