This book is yet another wonderfully written novel by H.G. Wells. Like his other novels, the Wife of Sir Isaac Harman will enchant the reader with its vivid characters and portrayal of life.
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Born Herbert George Wells in Kent in 1866, H. G. Wells was an outspoken socialist and pacifist, whose works caused some controversy. He is more widely known as a science fiction writer for the novels that he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes and The First Men in the Moon. All, except for When the Sleeper Wakes, have been made into films. Along with Jules Verne, H. G. Wells is also known as 'the Father of Science Fiction'. His later novels were more realistic and he wrote many genres, including contemporary novels, history and social commentary. H. G. Wells died in 1946.
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An overlooked comedy by a great writer,
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This is my absolute favorite of all amongst Wells' social novels. Yes, he's best known for his science fiction now, but he had a genuinely brilliant eye for social satire. In my opinion, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is his funniest, despite some indirect hints of anti-Semitism in his sometimes stereotypical portrait of Sir Issac himself.
He is not the main character, however: his wife Ellen is, as she gropes her way from a child-bride's terrified dependency upon her husband's will to finding a life and work of her own, with the help of a bumblingly romantic writer of domestic comedies. (Unlike several of Wells' other novels of women's intellectual growth, Ellen does not end up falling madly in love with a scientifically-minded iconoclast bearing a suspicious resemblance to Wells, thank goodness.) Occasionally, the writer character gets a trifle preachy, but who could resist a protagonist who suddenly declares herself a suffragette and smashes the nearest shop window because the time in jail means a holiday from her husband? Well worth the read, in short.
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THE motor-car entered a little white gate, came to a porch under a thick wig of jasmine, and stopped. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Lady Harman, Sir Isaac, Lady Beach-Mandarin, Black Strand, Miss Alimony, Susan Burnet, Miss Sharsper, Lady Viping, Hampton Court, International Stores, George Edmund, Agatha Alimony, Miss Babs Wheeler, Old Country Gazette, Horatio Blenker, Miss Garradice, Putney Hill, Miss Sawbridge, Alice Burnet, Maxwell Hartington, Miss Beeton Clavier, Sir Markham, Saint Paul, Santa Margherita, Social Friends New!
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Lady Harman, Sir Isaac, Lady Beach-Mandarin, Black Strand, Miss Alimony, Susan Burnet, Miss Sharsper, Lady Viping, Hampton Court, International Stores, George Edmund, Agatha Alimony, Miss Babs Wheeler, Old Country Gazette, Horatio Blenker, Miss Garradice, Putney Hill, Miss Sawbridge, Alice Burnet, Maxwell Hartington, Miss Beeton Clavier, Sir Markham, Saint Paul, Santa Margherita, Social Friends New!
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