Preface to H G Wells

John Hammond is a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University and Founding President of the H G Wells Society.

• List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART ONE: THE WRITER AND HIS SETTINGFamily treeChronological tableCHAPTER 1: HIS LIFE AND TIMESEarly yearsThe studentJournalism and early fictionThe middle yearsThe later yearsCHAPTER 2: WELLS AND HIS WORLDThe influence of placeThe town of his birthTown and countryA PREFACE TO H. G. WELLSThe London of his fictionThe autobiographical novelsWells's prose stylePART TWO : CRITICAL COMMENTARYThe science fiction of the 1890sThe social novelsThe narrative voiceClassical and romanticWells and modernismUtopia and dystopiaThe novel as myth: The Time MachineTono-Btmgay: the divided selfPART THREE: REFERENCE SECTIONWells and his circle: sh ort biographiesA Wells geographyWells's literary reputationFurther reading and refermceIndexIndex of Well's Works