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Love and Mr Lewisham

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141441054

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £10.99

Love and Mr Lewisham

  • H G Wells

  • Simon James (Edited by)

  • Gillian Beer (Introducer)

Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Driven by overwhelming desire, he pursues Ethel passionately, only to find that while she returns his love she also hides a dark secret. For she is involved in a plot of trickery that goes against his firmest beliefs, working as an assistant to her stepfather - a cynical charlatan 'mystic' who earns his living by deluding the weak-willed with sly trickery.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141441054

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £10.99

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H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.

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