H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life

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H.G. Wells created classic science-fiction tales such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, reinvented the Dickensian novel in Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, pioneered postmodernism in experimental fiction and harangued his contemporaries in polemics which included two bestselling histories of the world. He brought equal energy to his outrageously promiscuous love life. A series of affairs embraced distinguished authors such as Dorothy Richardson and Rebecca West, the gun-toting travel writer Odette Keun and Russian spy Moura Budberg. The life of Wells is a great story in its own right. Here it is retold from a 21st-century perspective, making it accessible and fascinating to general readers and English literature specialists alike.

Michael Sherborne is the former editor of "The Wellsian" and chairman of the H. G. Wells Society. Christopher Priest is the award-winning author of such novels as "Inverted World," "The Islanders," and "The Prestige." He has been strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed to the position of vice president of the H. G. Wells Society.

"Accessible to readers interested either in the roots of science fiction/fantasy or in literary biography, but scholarly enough for literature students as well." --"Library Journal" "With access to heretofore-unpublished letters and a singular grasp of Wells' genius, moxie, and failings, Sherborne is the first to portray the protean, scandalous, world-changing writer in full." --"Booklist"