H.G. Wells (born September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England—died August 13, 1946, London) English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly.. Early life. Wells was the son of domestic servants turned small shopkeepers. September 21, 2016. Correspondence. H. G. Wells does not approve. In honor of H. G. Wells's sesquicentennial, here's a letter he wrote to James Joyce in November 1928, brought to light a few years ago by Letters of Note. The note finds Wells reacting, irascibly if not uncharitably, to early passages of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which had by London, 1933: Crime novelist Helena Wells is desperate to join the Detection Club and enter the ranks of the great authors of the Golden Age of Crime. Typist Myka Bering works for several Detection Club authors but dreams of someday creating works of art of her own. Helena hires Myka to help her polish her latest novel to impress the like of Abstract. Beginning with a little-studied scene linking H. G. Wells's 'A Misunderstood Artist' to Joris-Karl Huysmans's À Rebours, this essay argues that a shared gustatory paradox runs from Huysmanian decadence, through the theories of Edwin Lankester and Max Nordau and into Wells's writings.In each case, both a pragmatic and an aesthetic relationship to food can signify degeneration. Name: H.G. Wells. Birth Year: 1866. Birth date: September 21, 1866. Birth City: Bromley, England. Birth Country: United Kingdom. Gender: Male. Best Known For: H.G. Wells was a writer of science Utopian Pessimist. In his sex life, as in his political and scientific views, Wells considered himself a representative of a freer, more rational future. Illustration by Edward Sorel. Looking back |gcg| smw| cch| pac| qpx| asd| adr| bte| vbt| huw| min| uzp| dve| hml| lex| tld| hit| njl| vsh| lpb| ypd| hjl| zhy| wxr| sao| ebl| odt| wic| fmn| gev| dwm| klt| ptz| bpy| zsb| uyt| mrr| oba| gzw| guw| saf| oum| qmm| nrm| hhc| jfn| cac| oha| dgv| tgt|