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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It is a straightforward sequencing of Wells’ novels, looked at through the lens of what was going on in his life at the time. Wells wrote a lot of novels and lived a long life, so it’s quite a long book, though for the sf fan the interest goes off the boil after the first few chapters. I definitely felt I learned more from this than from David Lodge’s A Man of Parts. One technical point - rather more proof-reading errors than I would have expected from a professional publisher. ( )