A Vision of Judgment

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"A Vision of Judgement"
Short story by H. G. Wells
Genre(s)Satire
Publication
Published inThe Butterfly, "A humorous and artistic magazine"[1]
Publication typeMagazine
Media typeShort story
Publication dateSeptember 1899

Written in the late 19th century by

Sirius for a sun," saying "now that you understand me and each other a little better. . . . try again."[4]

"A Vision of Judgment" has been reprinted in The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells,[3] A Dream of Armageddon: The Complete Supernatural Tales.,[3] and various other collections and anthologies. Some of the publications were under the title "A Vision of Judgement."

Background

Wells was raised by a mother—Sarah Wells née Neal (1822-1905)—with a "natural tendency to

The Secret Places of the Heart (1922). My phraseology went back unobtrusively to the sturdy atheism of my youthful days. My spirit had never left it."[9]

References

  1. – via OCLC Worldcat.
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  3. ^ a b c See ISFDB listing in #External links
  4. ^ H.G. Wells, "A Vision of Judgment," §9, in The Short Stories of H.G. Wells (London: Ernest Benn, 1927), p. 114.
  5. ^ H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 27 & 29-30.
  6. ^ a b H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), p. 45.
  7. ^ David C. Smith, H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 15.
  8. ^ H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), p. 576.
  9. ^ H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), p. 578.

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