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200 10$aH.G. Wells $eanother kind of life /$fMichael Sherborne ; foreword by Christopher Priest
205   $aPaperback edition.
210  1$aLondon :$cPeter Owen,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (432 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 377-388) and index.
327   $aFront Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Christopher Priest; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1: Family and Childhood, 1851-1880; 2: Five False Starts, 1880-1884; 3: Student, 1884-1887; 4: 'In the Wilderness', 1887-1890; 5: An Attempt at Conformity, 1890-1893; 6: Author, 1893-1895; 7: The Scientific Romances, 1895-1899; 8: A New Prospectus, 1899-1901; 9: Annexing the Future, 1902-1905; 10: Fabianism and Free Love, 1905-1909; 11: Novelist, 1909-1911; 12: Journalist, 1911-1916; 13: Prophet, 1916-1919; 14: Historian, 1919-1922
327   $a15: Godfather, 1922-192616: Life after Jane, 1927-1930; 17: An Inflated Persona, 1930-1934; 18: The Man Who Continued to Work Miracles, 1935-1939; 19: Declarations, 1939-1943; 20: Exasperations, 1943-1946; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright; Back Cover
330   $aWhen H.G. Wells left school in 1880 at thirteen he looked destined for obscurity. Defying expectations, he became one of the most famous writers in the world, remaining active into the era of the atomic bomb, which he predicted by thirty years. He 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 t
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