H. G. Wells wrote almost a hundred books, yet he is generally
remembered for only a handful of them. He is known above all as a
writer who heralded the future, yet throughout his life he clung to
fixed attitudes from the Victorian past. He began his career as a
draper's apprentice; by the age of forty-five he had secured an
international reputation as the author of The Time Machine, The War
of the Worlds, Kipps and Tono Bungay; he went on to establish
himself as an influential educator, polemicist and sage. In this
book John Batchelor offers a readable introduction to Wells's huge
and varied output as a writer and thinker. He guides the reader
through the whole oeuvre, and argues persuasively that at his best
Wells was a great artist: a man with a remarkable, restless
imagination (not limited, as many critics have implied, merely to
his early romances) and with a coherent and responsible theory of
fiction.
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