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Edward Shanks (1892–1953)

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Beinhaltet den Namen: Edward Buxton Shanks

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The People of the Ruins (1920) 24 Exemplare
Queer Street Vol 2 (1938) 7 Exemplare
Rudyard Kipling: A Study in Literature and Political Ideas (1940) 6 Exemplare
Old King Cole (1936) 4 Exemplare
Queer Street Volume One (1938) 3 Exemplare
The Enchanted Village (1933) 3 Exemplare
The queen of China, and other poems 3 Exemplare
Second Essays on Literature (1975) 3 Exemplare
Queer street, 2 Exemplare
Book handbook, December 1951-March 1952, vol. 2, no. 4 (1951) — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
Book handbook, 1951, vol. 2, no. 1 (1951) — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
The old indispensables : a romance of Whitehall 1 Exemplar
Book handbook, September 1951, vol. 2, no. 3 (1951) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The Shadowgraph and Other Poems 1 Exemplar
Songs 1 Exemplar
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Kipps. (1905) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 510 Exemplare
The Undying Monster (1922) — Appendix, einige Ausgaben — 63 Exemplare
Great Unsolved Crimes (1975) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Vol. 08, No. 5, June 1947 (1947) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare

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The People Of The Ruins von Edward Shanks
A short novel set in the London area, Edward Shanks takes introduces readers to Jeremy Tuft, an ex-artillery officer and physics instructor; who becomes trapped in the London laboratory during a worker's uprising in 1924. Tuft, wakes up 150 years into the future, a future not filled with advanced technology but rather a landscape reminiscent to that of a medieval society. The year 2074 is very different and yet seemingly simpler than 1924. Jeremy Tuft sets about living amongst his new group of countrymen, basking in the peaceful world until...the wheels of history, of mankind, turn once again, and Tuft faces a dilemma.

A truly interesting take on what the 'future' holds in 1924 (considering this work was written in 1920), and what the 'future' holds in 2074 with a dark turn of events… (mehr)
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