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Love and Mr. Lewisham

H. G. Wells

Book Overview: 

The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H.G.Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, shows how these – as well as involvement in spiritualism – have to compete with love.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Indignation—if the phrase may be allowed—by the ladies of the place. Pretty looks were too often a snare. One boy—his ear was warmed therefor—once called aloud "Ethel," as Lewisham went by. The curate, a curate of the pale-faced, large-knuckled, nervous sort, now passed him without acknowledgment of his existence. Mrs. Bonover took occasion to tell him that he was a "mere boy," and once Mrs. Frobisher sniffed quite threateningly at him when she passed him in the street. She did it so suddenly she made him jump.

This general disapproval inclined him at times to depression, but in certain moods he found it exhilarating, and several times he professed himself to Dunkerley not a little of a blade. In others, he told himself he bore it for her sake. Anyhow he had to bear it.

He began to find out, too, how little the world feels the need of a young man of nineteen—he called himself nineteen, though he had. . . Read More

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This is an H.G. Wells many people don't know - the man who took the incredible scientific and emotional reasoning, empathetic character skills, and gift for exciting pacing that he honed to perfection on stories about possible future civilizations and scientific mishaps, and applied it to the most b

I came across this book by H.G.Wells after having read his later work Ann Veronica earlier this year a few months back. Unlike that later work this early Wells novel is not exactly perfect and not fully accomplished and realised. The principal flaws lie with the characters which are either not fully

I liked this little known Wells very much. Such a sense of being poor in 1890s London.

Maybe 4.5. I thoroughly enjoyed this one - really engaging, dealing with a lot of fascinating and complex themes. It really reminded me of the work of George Gissing. Would highly recommend.

A very excellent book to read, very light and easy, looking at young love, hopes and dreams for the future mixed with the reality of what actually happens. For all the potential that his book "The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll" had but never achieved for its potential, this book fully made up

Sci-fi lovers be warned this is not the Wells you're used to.

Mr. Lewisham is in love but at every turn life and Edwardian society seems to thwart their attempts to spend time together. Until one day Lewisham impulsivly follows the advice of a friend.

Secretly they marry. They marry without ever havin

This is an odd little book. Not least because you don't expect a somewhat clumsy romance novel from the pen of H.G. Wells. The eponymous protagonist is pompous, pretentious and try-as-one-might, hard to like. The two women, badly etched caricatures of the physically appealing and pure-hearted but we

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