David C. Smith - H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal. A Biography / Дэвид С. Смит - Х. Г. Уэллс: Отчаянно смертный. Биография / Изд.: Yale University Press (Изд. Йельского университета.) New Haven, London. / 0-300-03672-8 / Книга на английском языке.

David C. Smith - H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal. A Biography / Дэвид С. Смит - Х. Г. Уэллс: Отчаянно смертный. Биография

Книга на английском языке.

0-300-03672-8

Издательство: Yale University Press (Издательство Йельского университета.) New Haven, London. 1986. 634 с. Твердый переплет. Формат: 160х240. Суперобложка.

This biography focuses on the literary figure's enormously active public career and his intellectual and creative achievements, reveals how this classic womanizer remained consistently attractive to feminists, and examines his relationship with pivotal figures of the ageViewing human destiny as a race between education and catastrophe, Wells tried to educate the world as to the evils of simple-minded patriotism, racism, nationalism and science run amok. A socialist, a veritable writing machine and self-appointed spokesman for the Bolshevik revolution, the novelist-historian who began as a draper's apprentice rejected Marx's concept of class warfare. He called instead for a world state in which rewards for bad behavior would be eliminated. Smith's biographical-critical study traces the ties between Wells's prolific literary output and his socialist creed, his two marriages and numerous sexual adventures, his prickly relations with Conrad, James and the Fabians, and his feminist views. Although he never actively campaigned for women's suffrage, Wells championed women's right to birth control and, in his fiction, advocated sexual freedom.