Details

Edition

First American edition.

Description

436 pages ; 24 cm

Note

"Publisher's note : This is a work of fiction based on real events." -- T.p. verso.

Summary

Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent?s Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a teacher; his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination and a comic touch; his plunge into socialist politics; his belief in free love and energetic practice of it.

Subject

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Fiction.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Relations with women -- Fiction.

Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Fiction.

ISBN

9780670022984 hardback

0670022985 hardback

9781846554971 trade pbk.

1846554977 trade pbk.