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H.G Wells
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H.G. Wells : The World of William Clissold
'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Three Short Stories
[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
H.G. Wells : [unknown]
'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him with important models. Huxley, Wells and Aldington (especially "Death of a Hero") were rapidly digested; his poetic models were Edith Sitwell, Aldington, Nichols, Sassoon and Graves (in the cheap Benn's Sixpenny Poets editions), to be followed by the more lasting influences of Eliot and D.H. Lawrence...He read an essay by Lawrence in which he showed how England treated its writers. That, he said, made him decide "to swim against the current".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Kipps
'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
H.G. Wells : [early novels]
'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Kipps
'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just nothing that we wanted to do. There were no lessons, and we spent most of the time reading whatever we liked. It happened that my father had picked up at the stationer's a sixpenny copy of Wells's "Kipps" and I began to chuckle over this, as we sat in class.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Short History of the World
'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli
'Friday 15th October. Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new uniform edition of Wells. The latter are easily the most beautiful cheap editions I have seen and I intend to get the pick of them. ?Kipps? next and ?Mr Polly?. Monday 18th October. ?The New Machiavelli? (H.G. Wells).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The New Machiavelli
'Wednesday 20th October. Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening and read ?Machiavelli?. Some day I must put my thoughts on this book on to paper. I feel at present as though it might help me very materially in some respects, on my own path in life. I think in the sex problem the hero is somewhat similar in make-up to myself. Whilst his intellectual activities are but my own magnified. This, I will qualify and explain to myself when I finish the book.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
H.G. Wells : A Modern Utopia
'1st January- Saturday I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep. This might, thus, be an exemplary year for me, from my contrarily carrying-out all the resolutions I have not formed. ?A modern utopia? ( H.G. Wells ).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Dream
'30th January, Sunday. I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to rights. ?The Dream? (H.G. Wells).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Invisible Man
'23rd February, Wednesday. This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-coldness of the little Hotel Cronstadt in the Quartier Convention. Wrote to Teddie and Mother. In bed I read a French translation of Well?s ?Invisible Men?. Which is about all the literature Muggridge possesses, and then went to sleep very willingly, being horribly homesick. I am so alone in this vast city.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Time Machine
'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Burslem ( where I come from) is mentioned at the beginning of 'The Time Machine', & one of your short stories runs over the entire pottery district? I forget the title of it .' I enclose my review of your last book.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others'
'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burslem & the potteries, Burslem ( where I come from) is mentioned at the beginning of 'The Time Machine', & one of your short stories runs over the entire pottery district? I forget the title of it . I enclose my review of your last book.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Invisible Man
'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is your connection with Burselem & the potteries, Burslem ( where I come from) is mentioned at the beginning of 'The Time Machine', & one of your short stories runs over the entire pottery district? I forget the title of it . I enclose my review of your last book.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : A Story of the Days to Come
'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to improve as they go on , & which certainly strike me as being fine & in a very special sense original work. . . . Do you not consider yourself fortunate, this time, in your illustrator?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Serial / periodical
H.G. Wells : Tono Bungay
'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the hang of the last part.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book, proofs of novel
H.G. Wells : Marriage
'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married life than anybody has ever achieved before.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Manuscript: Codex, proofs
H.G. Wells : The Passionate Friends
'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Marriage?certainly more homogeneous?& about as good as the New M . . . '
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book
H.G. Wells : Mr Britling Sees It Through
'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes that ought to be the best are the best. In fact it is an impressive work. . . . P.S. You will doubtless find some of the corrections quite inadmissible. They are all simply suggestions. A.B.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Plattner Story and Others
'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription on the fly-leaf; for the more I know of you--in our inconclusive talks--the more I feel that such should be the terms of our intercourse. I've of course read the book more than once. You get hold of one by your immense power of presentation, by your capacity to give shape, colour, aspect to the invisible.[...] ' Hence follows about twenty lines of appreciative comment and some negative criticism of one of the stories "The Cone".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Love and Mr Lewisham
'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.' Hence follow five more lines of praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The Soul of a Bishop
'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : The World of William Clissold
I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book is very good. It is full of brains, & very provocative & stimulating, & I enjoyed it. If you want to realise how positively good 'Clissold' is, read a bit of 'The Silver Spoon'. But I know you won’t. Coward!
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Mankind in the Making
'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield Print: Book
H.G. Wells : Mankind in the Making
'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave a good resume of the political and social proposals and C.E. Stansfield of the Educational system suggested by the author. Both papers prompted considerable discussion'
