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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 452 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x155 mm, weight: 712 g, 3 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 452 p. 11 illus., 3 illus. in color., 1 Paperback / softback
  • Serija: Literary Lives
  • Išleidimo metai: 06-Dec-2019
  • Leidėjas: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • ISBN-10: 3030264203
  • ISBN-13: 9783030264208
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 452 pages, aukštis x plotis: 235x155 mm, weight: 712 g, 3 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 452 p. 11 illus., 3 illus. in color., 1 Paperback / softback
  • Serija: Literary Lives
  • Išleidimo metai: 06-Dec-2019
  • Leidėjas: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • ISBN-10: 3030264203
  • ISBN-13: 9783030264208
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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.


        

             

Recenzijos

This is not a scholarly study but an account of a personal engagement with the oeuvre of a great writer who has fallen out of favor with the reading public for many reasons, one of which is that several of his masterworks were almost submerged under a flood of topical, polemical writing intended to have an immediate impact and a short shelf life. (Nicholas Ruddick, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 48, 2021)

H. G. Wells: A Literary Life by Adam Roberts is a rich and provocative feast for students of Wells, novice and specialist alike. his book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of Wellss genius. (The Wellsian - The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society, Vol. 43, 2020)

1 Childhood 1(18)
2 Short Fiction 19(22)
3 Science Fiction 41(18)
4 Bicycles and Tripods 59(16)
5 A New Century 75(28)
6 Anticipations 103(18)
7 Kipps: A Study in Artistry 121(14)
8 Sex 135(12)
9 Socialism and America 147(16)
10 Amber Reeves 163(26)
11 Tono-Bungay (1909) 189(14)
12 Mr. Polly (1910) 203(10)
13 Elizabeth von Arnim 213(20)
14 War 233(14)
15 Boon and Bealby 247(14)
16 Rebecca West 261(10)
17 Mr. Wells Sees Through It 271(14)
18 League of Nations 285(10)
19 Education 295(8)
20 World-Historical 303(10)
21 Futures and Pasts 313(18)
22 Odette Keun 331(28)
23 Life Stories 359(12)
24 Later Non-fiction 371(18)
25 Later Fiction 389(20)
26 Tethersend 409(16)
Coda 425(8)
Chronology 433(4)
Bibliography 437(8)
Index 445
Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and also an award-winning writer of science fiction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the H G Wells Society.