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The reception of H.G. Wells in Europe
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ISBN: 1472543262 1281298778 9786611298777 1847144446 9781847144447 0826462537 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Thoemmes Continuum

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"H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a 'seismograph of his age'. He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain. This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union. Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe Review."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Building cosmopolis : the political thought of H.G. Wells
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ISBN: 1315261170 9781351954266 1351954261 9781315261171 9780754633839 0754633837 1351954245 1351954253 9781351954242 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,


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H.G. Wells : another kind of life
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ISBN: 0720613515 9780720613513 1306141192 0720613817 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Peter Owen

H.G. Wells
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ISBN: 0521260264 052127804X 0511553641 0511869045 9780521260268 9780521278041 Year: 1985 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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