{"product_id":"9781470080747","title":"The Wondersmith","description":"Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. \u003cp\u003eO'Brien's earliest writings in the United States were contributed to the\u003cbr\u003eLantern, which was then edited by John Brougham. Subsequently he wrote for the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American\u003cbr\u003eWhig Review. His first important literary connection was with Harper's\u003cbr\u003eMagazine, and beginning in February, 1853, with The Two Skulls, he contributed more than sixty articles in prose and verse to that periodical.\u003cbr\u003eHe likewise wrote for the New York Saturday Press, Putnam's Magazine,\u003cbr\u003eVanity Fair, and the Atlantic Monthly. To the latter he sent The\u003cbr\u003eDiamond Lens(1858) and The Wonder Smith (1859), which are unsurpassed as creations of the imagination, and are unique among short magazine stories. The Diamond Lens is probably his most famous short story, and tells the story of a scientist who invents a powerful microscope discovers a beautiful female in a microscopic world inside a drop of water. The Wonder Smith is an early predecessor of robot rebellion,\u003cbr\u003ewhere toys possessed by evil spirits are transformed into living automatons who turns against their creators. His 1858 short story From\u003cbr\u003eHand to Mouth has been referred to as\"the single most striking example of surrealistic fiction to pre-date Alice in Wonderland (Sam Moskowitz,\u003cbr\u003e1971). What Was It? A Mystery (1859) is one of the earliest known examples of invisibility in fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061107081456,"sku":"9781470080747","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781470080747_p0.jpg?v=1763595959","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781470080747","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}