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H. G. Wells : Another Kind of Life

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ISBN: 9780720613919 | 0720613914
Edition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date: 9/1/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
H.G. Wells created classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, pioneered postmodernism in experimental fiction and harangued his contemporaries in polemics which included two bestselling histories of the world. He brought equal energy to his outrageously promiscuous love life. A series of affairs embraced distinguished authors such as Dorothy Richardson and Rebecca West, the gun-toting travel writer Odette Keun and Russ... MORE
Acknowledgementsp. 7
Forewordp. 9
List of Illustrationsp. 15
Introductionp. 19
Family and Childhood, 1851-1880p. 21
Five False Starts, 1880-1884p. 38
Student, 1884-1887p. 54
'In the Wilderness', 1887-1890p. 65
An Attempt at Conformity, 1890-1893p. 75
Author, 1893-1895p. 86
T... MOREp. 107
A New Prospectus, 1899-1901p. 135
Annexing the Future, 1902-1905p. 153
Fabianism and Free Love, 1905-1909p. 170
Novelist, 1909-1911p. 196
Journalist, 1911-1916p. 214
Prophet, 1916-1919p. 236
Historian, 1919-1922p. 251
Godfather, 1922-1926p. 265
Life After Jane, 1927-1930p. 277
An Inflated Persona, 1930-1934p. 291
The Man Who Continued to Work Miracles, 1935-1939p. 309
Declarations, 1939-1943p. 326
Exasperations, 1943-1946p. 339
Notesp. 351
Bibliographyp. 377
Indexp. 389
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Michael Sherborne is the former editor of The Wellsian and chairman of the H. G. Wells Society. Christopher Priest is the award-winning author of such novels as The Prestige, Inverted World, and The Islanders. He has been strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed to the position of vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society.


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