Select Conversations with an Uncle (now Extinct)
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN :
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN :
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) by H.G. Wells is among one of his best, affectionate, and relatable works. Wells writes about humorous exchanges with an uncle and his observations about being photographed, music, falling in love, and other life experiences.
Author : Geoffrey West
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1925
Category :
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Author : Geoffrey West
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1926
Category :
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Author : David C. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000380785
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and while a few are business – to publishers, agents and secretaries – the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as ‘Mark Benney’, who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love, socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included. Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878–1900; Volume 2 1901–1912; Volume 3 1913–1930; and Volume 4 1930–1946. H.G. Wells's works include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short History of the World (1922).
Author : Michael Sherborne
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0720613485
An unlikely lothario, one of the most successful writers of his time, a figure at the heart of the age's political and artistic debates—H. G. Wells' life is a great story in its own right When H. G. Wells left school in 1880 at 13 he seemed destined for obscurity—yet he defied expectations, becoming one of the most famous writers in the world. He wrote 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. Setting the record straight, this authoritative biography is the first full-scale account to include material from the long-suppressed skeleton correspondence with his mistresses and illegitimate daughter.
Author : H G Wells
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040248764
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill.
Author : David C. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2323 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000806839
This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2,000 letters, and while a few are business – to publishers, agents and secretaries – the majority are much more personal. Wells's private correspondence extends from letters to President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and A.J. Balfour, to persons such as ‘Mark Benney’, who wrote novels based on his life in the slums and his time in prison. There is correspondence too with his many female friends and lovers, among them Rebecca West, Eileen Power, Gertrude Stein, Marie Stopes, Lilah MacCarthy and Dorothy Richardson. For example, a letter from Moura Budberg, with whom Wells had a long-standing affair, which announces that she is pregnant by him and about to have an abortion, reveals how an advocate of birth control is himself caught out. Wells also enjoyed correspondence with the press, particularly during the two World Wars, and with various BBC officials and people who worked on his films. Some of his letters on the controversies of free love, socialism, birth control, the Fabian Society, and the nature of the curriculum of the new London University in the 1890s are included. Interspersed chronologically with Wells's letters is a small selection of about 40 letters to Wells, where letters from him are not extant. Among these are letters from Ray Lankester, Joseph Conrad, C.G. Jung, Trotsky, Hedy Gatternigg (the woman who attempted suicide in Wells's flat), and J.C. Smuts. The letters are arranged in these periods: Volume 1 1878–1900; Volume 2 1901–1912; Volume 3 1913–1930; and Volume 4 1930–1946. H.G. Wells's works include The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The History of Mr Polly (1910), and A Short History of the World (1922).
Author : J. R. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349041467
Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher :
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Conversation
ISBN : 9780605589728
Consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with "a certain affluence," as well as two other conversations entitled "A Misunderstood Artist," and "The Man with a Nose."