Love and Mr Lewisham (Penguin Classics)
by H.G. Wells
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Author: H.G. WellsEditor: Simon James
Introduction: Gillian Beer
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN: 0141441054
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: Uncollected Wells
Summary: 4 Stars
Wells was 34 when this charming, comical and realistic book, set with cartographic accuracy in London in the 1880s, came out. He had already almost single-handedly (with a little help from Jules Verne) invented science fiction, but this was his first traditional novel. Number 6 on the official "A"-List of the Fireside Reading Club (read 2/4/96), Love and Mr. Lewisham is very much a coming-of-age novel, with an intellectually ambitious adolescent finding his romantic impulses getting in the way of his ambitions. It's a novel of idealistic youth defeated (seemingly) by early marriage. It's surprisingly sweet and sentimental, and one feels like screaming when the hero marries the wrong young woman - the physically attractive but dimwitted one rather than the one whose mind and great socialist ideals matched his and who believed in him. I had no idea the intimidating (and beastly according to ...biographer Michael Coren) Wells could be such a tender, sentimental romantic. Henry James, who was a friend of Wells' (and 23 years his senior) at the time this book came out (they later had a permanent falling out), wrote to Wells to say he found the book "a great charm and a great deal of the real thing," and "a bloody little chunk of life, of no small substance." This is the first of an autobiographical trilogy...
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