Love and Mr. Lewisham [Hardcover]

H. G. Wells (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1, 2004

At the particular moment when this story begins he was in his bedroom. An attic it was, with lead-framed dormer windows, a slanting ceiling and a bulging wall, covered, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old-fashioned paper. To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness. . . .

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About the Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) is regarded as one of the all-time greatest authors of science fiction. A. C. Grayling is a philosopher, a former Booker Prize judge, and the author of Among the Dead Cities, Ideas that Matter, and Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 228 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809587998
• ISBN-13: 978-0809587995
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wells' social fiction, April 8, 2003

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Bobby Newman (Long Beach, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love and Mr. Lewisham (Everyman Paperback Classics) (Paperback)

Love and Mr. Lewisham is the story of a young man who seeks to better himself and achieve glory through educational achievements. His love life, however, derails this ambition in several different ways. This is Wells' exploration of the dilemmas of the young man torn between career and relationship. Wells fans will realize that the ending of the book did not mirror his actual feelings/behavior on marriage.

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good book that's not really well known, July 17, 2000

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This review is from: Love and Mr. Lewisham (Everyman Paperback Classics) (Paperback)

i just grabbed a book one day from the library and it turned out to be a good story. i was surprised that wells, a big author, wrote such an unknown book. try it out.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Navigation, April 13, 2011

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James O. Smith (Minneapolis, Minnesota USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love and Mr. Lewisham (with ClicBrowz navigation) (Kindle Edition)

This is what it says it is: a public domain text with navigation that allows the user to easily navigate the entire book, providing forward, backward and cross links to every section of the book. Most public domain texts (and far too many new texts) are just plain texts rendered into the Kindle format. This text was carefully constructed to fit the structure of this book.