Titlebook: H G Wells; A Literary Life Adam Roberts Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Natu

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(1910),Perhaps Wells’s greatest achievement in the mode of comic-realist fiction is, . (1910). Discussion includes Wells’s creation of a distinctive English comic archetype and the novel’s form and intertextual indebtedness to Dante.

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and ,Two comic novels from the war years, the first of which cruelly satirised Wells’s friend Henry James (and which broke their friendship).

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Mr Wells Sees Through It,Wells’s World War I bestseller, and one of his most accomplished works of fiction, . (1916) is discussed; the chapter also covers Wells’s short-lived conversion to religious faith, the theology of . (1917) and the religious fiction of . (1917).

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Education,As Wells’s two sons grew up he became deeply involved in their education and in the theory of education more broadly, as manifested in the non-fiction and fiction he wrote in the later nineteen-teens: the novels . (1918); . (1919) and non-fiction . (1923); . (1924).

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