%0 Book %A Halszka Leleń %D 2016 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 2194-5918 %@ 9783653045857 %T H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine %R 10.3726/978-3-653-04585-7 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048628 %X The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866–1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells’s staple methods of artistic composition – the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi. %K Trickster games, two-world structure, Utopia, Dystopia %G English