H.G. Wells and the Twenty-First Century

by Bill Cooke

H.G. Wells has been branded as a novelist who betrayed his vocation. But Wells saw himself as what we would today call a public intellectual. How credible is this claim? And what happens when we look at him in this way? So typecast has Wells's reputation become that neither of these questions has been previously asked, but when we look at Wells as a thinker we find a whole new quality to his later works, which have invariably been dismissed by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837645116
• ISBN13: 9781837645114
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"