Love and Mr Lewisham Summary
H. G. Wells

CHAPTER I. Introduces Mr. Lewisham. The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love—­indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third—­and Mr. Lewisham is see... Read more

Biography EssayH. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with... Read more

"The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made, There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystallin... Read more

Over a career that spanned five decades, H. G. Wells produced nearly a hundred full-length books, a large portion of them novels and collections of short fiction. In his 1934 autobiography Wells accur... Read more

Fantastic literature has existed as long as literature itself; Renaissance thinkers wrote of utopias and imaginary voyages into space; Jonathan Swift employed the fantastic in Gulliver's Travels (1726... Read more