H.G. WELLS: ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE. (SIGNED)

SHERBORNE, Michael.

ISBN 10: 0720613515 / ISBN 13: 9780720613513

Published by Peter Owen Publishers, London,, 2011

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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publishers royal blue boards, lettered silver at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. Flatsigned. ISBN: 0720613515 Pages: 408 Very good indeed in very good dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: H.G. WELLS: ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, London,
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0720613515
• ISBN 13: 9780720613513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

When H.G. Wells left school in 1880 at thirteen he looked destined for obscurity. Defying expectations, he became one of the most famous writers in the world, remaining active into the era of the atomic bomb, which he predicted by thirty years. He 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. Until his death in 1946 Wells had artistic and ideological confrontations with everyone from Henry James to George Orwell, from Churchill to Stalin. He remains a controversial figure, attacked by some as a philistine, sexist and racist, praised by others as a great writer, a prophet of globalization and a pioneer of human rights. Wells scholar Michael Sherborne sets the record straight in this authoritative biography. It is the first full-scale account to include material from the long-suppressed skeleton correspondence with his mistresses and illegitimate daughter. Wells s life 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 Head of the English and Humanities Department at Luton Sixth Form College. He is the former editor of The Wellsian and chairman of the H.G. Wells Society