For about three-quarters of this book I thought I might be reading some lost classic -- a time travel novel that fell into obscurity simply because it came out a couple months after Welles' The Time Machine, a social satire forgotten because it was too far ahead of its time -- but then the author re

The introduction mentions that the author forgoes serialization to publish the book directly ( giving up a tidy part of his remuneration ). This is even further explained that he, kind of, self published this book, because it many magazine and publisher thought it not acceptable subject.

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I found this book quite annoying. Early SF has a fine record for shining a light on the absurdities of contemporary society through the medium of an objective traveller. However, this book does so with a very sneering, inverse-snobbish attitude towards middle England which I found a real turn off. T

Questi barbari inglesi”, traduzione di “The British Barbarians”, di Grant Allen, edito da Marchetti, apre la collana “Dodo d’oro”, formata da opere in lingua inglese che, per vari motivi, sono scomparse della memoria culturale e quindi non sono mai state tradotte in italiano prima d’ora.

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Whereas Allen at times offers social commentary of astonishing subtlety, the opinions expounded in The British Barbarians are about as subtle as a train wreck. This is essentially a two-hundred page sermon on the evils of a society in which the author apparently found little worthy of praise. While

There is no doubt that Wells was first with “The Time Machine”, but it is interesting that Grant Allen’s “The British Barbarians” was published the same year, and also deals with time travel. Both novels make a comment on society, though Allen reverses the direction of the time travel, by having a m