From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influe
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English Year 2021
Table of contents :
Illustrations
Preface
1. Two Accidents
2. “What else can you do?”
3. Uppark
4. “A bright run of luck”
5. Blood
6. “For a young man to marry . . .”
7. More Blood
8. The Time Machine
9. “Uncommonly cheerful and hopeful”
10. A House by the Sea
11. Fabian Friends
12. Joining the Club
13. Pressure
14. America in 1906
15. Webb and Wells
16. Amberissima
17. Heroines
18. Tono-Bungay
19. Friends and Enemies
20. “I warmed both hands before the fire of Life”
Photographs
Bibliography
Books by Wells 1893–1911
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index