H. G. Wells's An Experiment in Autobiography, subtitled, with
typically Wellsian self-effacement, 'Discoveries and Conclusions of
a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)', first appeared in 1934, when
Wells was sixty-eight years old, and is presented in Faber Finds in
two volumes (also in the Faber Finds imprint is H. G. Wells in
Love, which Wells drafted as 'Postscript to an Experiment in
Autobiography' and can be read as an accompaniment to these
volumes).
In these volumes, Wells relates his early life, student days,
struggles to make a living, ascent to literary supremacy, and later
career as prophet of socialism. We follow him from the beginnings
of his thoughts to his crowning conclusion 'This particular brain
... has arrived at the establishment of the Socialist World-State
as its directive purpose and has made that its religion and
end.'
On reading this remarkable account, President Roosevelt wrote to
Wells to say:
'An Experiment in Autobiography was for me an experiment in
staying awake instead of putting the light out. How do you manage
to retain such vivid pictures of events and such extraordinarily
clear impressions and judgements?'
These are indeed the conclusions of an extraordinary brain and a
remarkable individual.
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