Bealby is a young boy who is absolutely determined not to accept his lot in life as a servant. However, despite having thrown tantrums and argued with his mother about ...

Mr Britling Sees it Through was first published in 1916.

Set in the summer of 1914 the main hero, Mr Britling, is an eccentric writer whose days are spent at ...

The main protagonist of Men Like Gods is Mr Barnstaple, a careful driver and depressive journalist writing for The Liberal newspaper. It is to his consternation, therefore, that while carefully ...

First published in Britain and America in 1915 under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss, Boon (its full subtitle being the Mind of the Race, the Wild Asses of the Devil, and ...

Though this novel was first published in 1926, with a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought ...

Though this novel was first published in 1926, with a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought ...

Though this novel was first published in 1926, with a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought ...

H. G. Wells made three visits to Russia, this book being the result of his second in 1920. It's an understatement to say it was an interesting time to ...

H. G. Wells’s An Experiment in Autobiography , subtitled, with typically Wellsian self-effacement, ‘Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)’, first appeared in 1934, when Wells was ...

H. G. Wells’s An Experiment in Autobiography , subtitled, with typically Wellsian self-effacement, ‘Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)’, first appeared in 1934, when Wells was ...

'I was never a great amorist,' wrote H. G. Wells in his Experiment in Autobiography in 1934, 'though I have loved several people very deeply.'

H. G. Wells composed his ...

Mr Hoopdriver is an expert in his field - a perfect gentleman with more than a little flair behind the drapers’ counter. Yet Mr Hoopdriver is growing tired of measuring out ...

Mr Bensington and Professor Redwood were amongst that new breed of men - or ‘scientists’ as they had become known. They discover Herakleophorbia IV, a chemical foodstuff that accelerates growth, and ...

Revenge was all Leadford could think of as he set out to find the unfaithful Nettie and her adulterous lover. But this was all to change when a new comet ...

On the death of his father, Stephen Stratton writes a long and deeply personal letter to his son, hoping that, as his son becomes a man, he can benefit from ...

Sir Isaac Harman, international Bread and Cake magnate, suffers an onslaught of women. Waitresses strike at his London tea shops; invading dowagers drive him into hiding in his garden shed ...