H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

Sherborne, Michael

ISBN 10: 0720613914 / ISBN 13: 9780720613919

Published by Peter Owen Publishers, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

Title: H. G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: good

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Synopsis:

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 Russian spy Moura Budberg. The life of Wells is a great story in its own right. Here it is retold from a 21st-century perspective, making it accessible and fascinating to general readers and English literature specialists alike.

About the Author:

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 "Inverted World," "The Islanders," and "The Prestige." 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.