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Experiment in Autobiography
by
H.G. Wells
s/t: Discoveries & Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)
Introductory
Origins
Schoolboy
Early Adolescence
Science Student in London
Struggle for a Living
Dissection
Fairly Launched at Last
The Idea of a Planned World
Illustrations
Index
Introductory
Origins
Schoolboy
Early Adolescence
Science Student in London
Struggle for a Living
Dissection
Fairly Launched at Last
The Idea of a Planned World
Illustrations
Index
Hardcover
,
718 pages
Published
November 1st 1984
by Little Brown and Company
(first published 1934)
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This was long and a little odd. It's an intellectual biography and ends with rather a lengthy chapter on his political ideas which can get a little woolly. But after reading so much of Wells' fiction over the last year, I was quite delighted by much of it, especially his relationships with other writers and his ideas about fiction writing.
Incredibly easy to read, long, self-effacing, nonscientific, entirely unmemorable and strangely without laughs for a native born Brit.
I won't give anything away if I mention the only three sentences I remember after so many years: 1) He studied biology originally 2) He wrote cheat sheets -- or was it essays -- for students after he graduated 3) The only funny moment is his only real anecdote, where he gave a speech calling Jesus Christ an "itinerant preacher" and called the house down on himsel ...more
I won't give anything away if I mention the only three sentences I remember after so many years: 1) He studied biology originally 2) He wrote cheat sheets -- or was it essays -- for students after he graduated 3) The only funny moment is his only real anecdote, where he gave a speech calling Jesus Christ an "itinerant preacher" and called the house down on himsel ...more
Until the end, this is a fascinating exercise both in honesty about oneself and in using oneself as an example of things occurring in one's society. Wells only goes astray when he starts getting preachy. There's so much in this tome, from science education, housing for the poor, and Wells' divided self.
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In 1866, (Herbert George) H.G. Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government schol
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“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes—it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”
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