Titlebook: H.G.Wells and the Modern Novel; J. R. Hammond Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988 fiction.histor

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: the Novel as Fableas. Throughout the decade following the immense upheaval of the First World War he continued to experiment with fiction, producing a number of promising novels and fantasias and testing out a variety of approaches in fictional form. . (1919) is a flawed but brave attempt to recast the Book of Job in

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: the Heart of Darknesss I did in ..’ Thus wrote Wells in his autobiography.. Following its completion in 1934 he embarked on a series of promising experiments in the novella form: . (1936), . (1937), . (1937) and . (1938). The novella as a literary genre was one he had hitherto left virtually untouched, apparently prefer

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: the Novel as Parodye Second World War and has been largely bypassed by modern literary criticism. By 1941 his reputation as a novelist was at its lowest ebb. A new generation of younger writers — D. H. Lawrence, J. B. Priestley, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh — had ousted him from the commanding position h

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https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53654-9ent critical attitudes towards Wells as a novelist. During his lifetime his novels enjoyed wide popularity but since his death, while his science fiction and short stories continue to be widely read, his reputation as a . has been almost totally eclipsed. He himself had no illusions concerning the t

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Planning Introductory College Courses,One has only to glance at the titles of many of his novels and speculations to recognise an obsession with time, past, present and future: .. Throughout his fiction he is consciously experimenting with time, playing with the idea of dislocations in time sequence, contrasting ‘clock’ time with that i

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A Library and School Network in Sweden,ey’s . between January and May of that year. All the evidence suggests that it was most carefully written and revised, passing through at least eight different versions from its first publication under the title ‘The Chronic Argonauts’ in 1888. Between 1889 and 1894 Wells worked away on successive v

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R. Taconis,P. den Brok,A. Pilotays on the other, it sits uncomfortably in that vague no man’s land occupied by such works as . and ., a literary oddity. Critics have never known quite what to make of it, and the book has been described variously as ‘a(chǎn) rag-bag’, ‘a(chǎn) farrago’ and ‘a(chǎn) compost heap’.. Critical discussion of . has conce