![]() ![]() ![]() Other work of interest is assembled in The Blindman's World and Other Stories (coll 1898): The Blindman's World (November 1886 Atlantic Monthly 2007 ebook), in which a dreaming observer visits Mars, where he learns that foreknowledge cannot change what one does To Whom This May Come (February 1889 Harper's Monthly 2007 ebook), a Lost World tale set in an Island in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants, descended from exiled Persian mages, are Telepaths whose vocal organs have withered from disuse and With the Eyes Shut (October 1889 Harper's Monthly 2007 ebook), a spoof vision of the coming ubiquity of the phonograph. His early works of fiction were Gothic sentimental and labouredly influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne, they are nevertheless strangely moving, though Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality ( 1884) fails to stand out from the host of psychic romances then popular. ![]() (1850-1898) US author and journalist, the latter from 1871, when he abandoned the practice of law before having properly begun it no lawyers exist in the 2000 CE of his most famous work, the Utopia Looking Backward 2000-1887 ( 1888) and its sequel, Equality ( 1897), whose influence in the nineteenth century was enormous. ![]()
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