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H G Wells: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) Paperback - 2019
by Roberts, Adam
- Used
Description
Details
- Title H G Wells: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
- Author Roberts, Adam
- Binding Paperback
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 452
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
- Date 2019-12-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ023F9P_ns
- ISBN 9783030264208 / 3030264203
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.95 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.41 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.094
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From the rear cover
This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells' importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering a nuanced portrait of the man who coined the phrases 'atom bomb', 'League of Nations' 'the war to end war' and 'time machine', who wrote the world's first comprehensive global history and invented the idea of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters, Roberts covers the entirety of Wells' life and discusses every book and short story he produced, delivering a complete vision of this enduring figure.