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Mr. Britling Sees It Through
H. G. Wells
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"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inhabitants of one house in rural Essex. Each of the characters tries in a different way to keep their bearings in a world suddenly changed beyond recognition.
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inhabitants of one house in rural Essex. Each of the characters tries in a different way to keep their bearings in a world suddenly changed beyond recognition.
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He'd done it! Mr. Carmine's stick and feet were a yard away.
Then hard on this wild triumph came a flash of horror. One can't see everything. His eye following the ball's trajectory....
Directly in its line of flight was the perambulator.
The ball missed the legs of the lady with the noble nose by a kind of miracle, hit and glanced off the wheel of the perambulator, and went spinning into a border of antirrhinums.
"Good!" cried Cecily. "Splendid shot!"
He'd shot a goal. He'd done it well. The perambulator it seemed didn't matter. Though apparently the impact had awakened the baby. In the margin of his consciousness was the figure of Mr. Britling remarking: "A. . . Read More
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Mr Britling sees it through – H G Wells (1916)
This was my first read for the Librarything Great War theme read. Many people will be reading William an Englishman by Cecily Hamilton during January and February, but as I read it just over a year
This book is something of an anomaly. It was written in 1916, and people agree that Mr Britling was based on the author. Yet I have the uncanny feeling that the story is about Rudyard Kipling. Wells and Kipling were around the same age.
The book begins just before WW1 and involves Britling, his son
This is a a wonderful jumble - part domestic novel, part philosphy, part rather profound musings on war and peace. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am now a little in love with HGW, like, it seems, many women before me.
In 2014 I set myself a reading challenge that, on the centenary of events in the First World War, I would read the relevant book out of a pile I have had accumulating unread over the past twenty years. This challenge has expanded a bit and, to add to the military, economic, and political history, I'
3.5 stars - Metaphorosis Reviews
An American comes to visit a prominent British author just as World War I breaks out. An examination of war, politics, and philosophy.
This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of peop
I have recently finished reading Mr Britling, and I actually quite enjoyed it. I find myself preferring his novels to his scientific romances because I think the novels, although set around the same time as his scientific romances (ie: the late 19th and early 20th centuries)are less dated.
Mr Britli