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The Project Gutenberg EBook of H. G. Wells, by J. D. Beresford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: H. G. Wells Author: J. D. Beresford Release Date: March 13, 2005 [EBook #15351] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK H. G. WELLS *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. [Illustration: H.G. WELLS] H.G. WELLS By J.D. BERESFORD [Illustration] NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY _First Published in 1915_ CONTENTS PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 9 II. THE ROMANCES 17 III. THE NOVELS 58 IV. SOCIOLOGY 97 BIBLIOGRAPHY 117 AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY 121 INDEX 125 [Transcriber's Notes for e-book: The spelling and punctuation are consistent with the original scans with the following exceptions. If you are using this book for research, please verify any spelling or punctuation with another source. I added ["] at end of phrase: "to recover the full-bodied self-satisfaction of his early days." In the following sentence, I changed 'succeded' to 'succeeded': And Bensington, the other experimenter, succeeded in separating a food that produced regular instead of intermittent growth.] TO R.A.A.B. THIS ESSAY IS FRATERNALLY DEDICATED I INTRODUCTION THE NORMALITY OF MR WELLS In his Preface to the _Unpleasant Plays_, Mr Shaw boasts his possession of "normal sight." The adjective is the oculist's, and the application of it is Mr Shaw's, but while the phrase is misleading until it is explained to suit a particular purpose, it has a pleasing adaptability, and I can find none better as a key to the works of Mr H.G. Wells. We need not bungle over the word "normal," in any attempt to meet the academic objection that it implies conformity to type. In this connection, the gifted possessor of normal sight is differentiated from his million neighbours by the fact that he wears no glasses; and if a few happy people still exist here and there who have
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