H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in modern literary history burned as fiercely—or as contradictorily—as Herbert George Wells, the draper's apprentice from Kent who remade the world's imagination. David C. Smith's exhaustive biography chronicles the full arc of Wells's astonishing life: from his impoverished origins and self-made education to his ascent as the prophet of science fiction, social reform, and utopian thought, mapping the relentless ambition of a man who refused the limits placed upon him by birth, class, or convention. Smith presents a Wells who was simultaneously visionary and deeply flawed—a tireless campaigner for a better world whose personal life was marked by serial love affairs, feuds with fellow intellectuals, and an unshakeable belief in his own destiny. Drawing on an enormous range of primary sources, the biography illuminates Wells's towering influence on the twentieth century, from his friendships with Shaw and James to his encounters with Roosevelt and Stalin. What emerges is the portrait of a man desperately aware of his own mortality, pouring that urgency into a body of work that continues to haunt our understanding of progress, power, and the human condition.
Author: David C. Smith
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in modern literary history burned as fiercely—or as contradictorily—as Herbert George Wells, the draper's apprentice from Kent who remade the world's imagination. David C. Smith's exhaustive biography chronicles the full arc of Wells's astonishing life: from his impoverished origins and self-made education to his ascent as the prophet of science fiction, social reform, and utopian thought, mapping the relentless ambition of a man who refused the limits placed upon him by birth, class, or convention. Smith presents a Wells who was simultaneously visionary and deeply flawed—a tireless campaigner for a better world whose personal life was marked by serial love affairs, feuds with fellow intellectuals, and an unshakeable belief in his own destiny. Drawing on an enormous range of primary sources, the biography illuminates Wells's towering influence on the twentieth century, from his friendships with Shaw and James to his encounters with Roosevelt and Stalin. What emerges is the portrait of a man desperately aware of his own mortality, pouring that urgency into a body of work that continues to haunt our understanding of progress, power, and the human condition.