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02084aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 2B5781FE5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 190630s2019 sz a b 001 0beng d 020 $a 9783030264208 020 $a 3030264203 035 $a (OCoLC)1106172008 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JTH $d UEJ $d YDXIT $d OCL $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a PR5777 R63x 2019 082 04 $a 823/.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Roberts, Adam $q (Adam Charles), $e author. 245 10 $a H G Wells : $b a literary life / $c Adam Roberts. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 452 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Literary lives 500 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells' importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering a nuanced portrait of the man who coined the phrases 'atom bomb', 'League of Nations' 'the war to end war' and 'time machine', who wrote the world's first comprehensive global history and invented the idea of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters, Roberts covers the entirety of Wells' life and discusses every book and short story he produced, delivering a complete vision of this enduring figure. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 600 10 $a Wells, H. G. $q (Herbert George), $d 1866-1946. 650 0 $a Novelists, English $y 20th century $v Biography. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9783030264215 830 0 $a Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303021446.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B5781FE5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search