Wells, H.G.

The Plattner Story (And Others).

First Edition. London, Methuen & Co. 1897. 19,8 cm x 13,5 cm. 40 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Titlepage torn on top. Only slightly foxed. Handwriting on front- and rear pastedown and half title.

Includes for example the following essays: The Plattner Story / The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham / Pollock and the Porroh Man / The Purple Pileus / The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic / A Slip under the Microscope etc etc.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and Wells is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).

Wells’s earliest specialized training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels like Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion, when they were published, that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. (Wikipedia).

• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 70342AB

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