H. G. Wells

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Label

H. G. Wells

Statement of responsibility

John Batchelor

Creator

• Batchelor, John, 1942-
• Batchelor, John, 1942-

Subject

• Wells, H. G., (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Wells, Herbert George, 1866-1946 -- Critique et interprétation

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Cambridge Books Online

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

British and Irish Authors