The Blazing World Be Annotated

Author : Margaret Cavendish
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World Annotated written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.

Author : Margaret Margaret Cavendish
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World written by Margaret Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New World, Called the Blazing World, self-published by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, in 1666 "is the first science-fiction novel to have been written and published by a woman," As its full title suggests, Blazing World is a fanciful depiction of a satirical, utopian kingdom in another world (with different stars in the sky) that can be reached via the North Pole. It is "the only known work of utopian fiction by a woman in the 17th century, as well as an example of what we now call 'proto-science fiction' -- although it is also a romance, an adventure story, and even autobiography."

Author : Margaret Cavendish
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World Be Annotated written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins when a beautiful, unnamed maiden is kidnapped by a love-stricken merchant and his men. She is seized from the shore of her homeland and carried out to sea. While they are sailing, a tempest forces the boat to move towards the North Pole, and as the tempest rages on, she is saved "by Providence" and separated from her captors. The merchant's boat floats off into the Atlantic Ocean and the men freeze to death as the maiden, in a lifeboat, drifts into another world that is attached to Earth via the North Pole.She passes through the pole to discover an icy, strange world in which different suns gloriously shine; the new, strange, and wonderful qualities of the blazing light emanate from these stars to create an alternative space and time. The maiden has entered a new kingdom, called Blazing World.While in this new world, the maiden is enthroned as Empress of an extremely diverse society. The society of Blazing World is comprised of all different sorts of unrecognizable men: bird-men, fish-men, bear-men, mermen, lice-men, creatures of green, black, tawny, and even purple complexions. The Empress proceeds to assign each of the different types of men different occupations and obligations. The bird-men then become astronomers, the bear-men experimental philosophers, the spider-men as mathematicians, ape-men as chemists, and worm-, fish-, and fly-men as natural philosophers.She uses her power to ensure that her newly endowed land is free of war, religious diversion, and unfair sexual discrimination.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World an Annotated written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins when a beautiful, unnamed maiden is kidnapped by a love-stricken merchant and his men. She is seized from the shore of her homeland and carried out to sea. While they are sailing, a tempest forces the boat to move towards the North Pole, and as the tempest rages on, she is saved "by Providence" and separated from her captors. The merchant's boat floats off into the Atlantic Ocean and the men freeze to death as the maiden, in a lifeboat, drifts into another world that is attached to Earth via the North Pole.She passes through the pole to discover an icy, strange world in which different suns gloriously shine; the new, strange, and wonderful qualities of the blazing light emanate from these stars to create an alternative space and time. The maiden has entered a new kingdom, called Blazing World.While in this new world, the maiden is enthroned as Empress of an extremely diverse society. The society of Blazing World is comprised of all different sorts of unrecognizable men: bird-men, fish-men, bear-men, mermen, lice-men, creatures of green, black, tawny, and even purple complexions. The Empress proceeds to assign each of the different types of men different occupations and obligations. The bird-men then become astronomers, the bear-men experimental philosophers, the spider-men as mathematicians, ape-men as chemists, and worm-, fish-, and fly-men as natural philosophers.She uses her power to ensure that her newly endowed land is free of war, religious diversion, and unfair sexual discrimination.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486845672
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a 17th-century duchess, this remarkable utopian fantasy centers on a heroine who is transported to another world, where she rules as empress and outlaws war, religious conflict, and gender discrimination.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141904828
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World and Other Writings written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World By Margaret Cavendish (Fully Annotated Edition) written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World written by Margaret Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542436922
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blazing World (Special Edition) written by Margaret Cavendish and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.