H G Wells A Literary Life
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 publica
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Literary Lives
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Adam Roberts
H G Wells A Literary Life
Adam Roberts Department of English Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey, UK
Literary Lives ISBN 978-3-030-26420-8 ISBN 978-3-030-26421-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26421-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
This is a literary biography of the English writer Herbert George Wells, and its emphasis is, by design, more on the literary than the biographical. The latter forms the spine of the book, and what follows provides, I hope, a reasonably thorough-going account of Wells’s life. But my focus is on what Wells wrote, in both fiction and non-fiction. I make no claims to have uncovered any new material about Wells’s actual life. Indeed, I’m not convinced there are any new biographical discoveries lurking in the archives: the ‘secret’ elements of Wells biography—his many extram
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