Presenting itself as a biography of Rudolf "Rud" Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that scarcely is he born but his monthly nurse exclaims: "It's a Holy Terror " Rud Whitlow goes on to become the founder of the first world state, long a Wellsian dream.The events take place in the recognizable recent English past, though it should be noted that Wells warns that "Every person, place and thing in this story-even the countries in which it happens-are fictitious...The England, the America, the London in this book are not the England, America and London of geography and journalism, but England, America, and London transposed into imaginative narrative."Every person, place and thing in this story-even the countries in which it happens-are fictitious, and any resemblance, though it runs to the pitch of identical names and circumstances, is at most a realistic device and free of any libellous intention whatever.
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