Research Catalog

Title

H G Wells : a literary life / Adam Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xv, 452 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Literary lives

Uniform Title

Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

• Wells, H. G. 1866-1946
• 1900-1999
• Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography
• 18.05 English literature
• Novelists, English

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Childhood -- Short fiction -- Science fiction -- Bicycles and tripods -- A new century -- Anticipations -- Kipps: a study in artistry -- Sex -- Socialism and America -- Amber Reeves -- Tono-Bungay (1909) -- Mr Polly (1910) -- Elizabeth von Arnim -- War -- Boon and Bealby -- Rebecca West -- Mr Wells sees through it -- League of Nations -- Education -- World-historical -- Futures and pasts -- Odette Keun -- Life stories -- Later non-fiction -- Later fiction -- Tethersend -- Coda -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 20-3156

ISBN

• 3030264203
• 9783030264208
• 9783030264215 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1106172008

Author

Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles), author.

Title

H G Wells : a literary life / Adam Roberts.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary lives

Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030264215

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3156