H. G. Wells (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British and Irish Authors
Release date:	March 1985
First published:	1985
Authors:	John Batchelor
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-27804-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-521-27804-X
Barcode:	9780521278041

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