Coren, Michael - The Invisible Man (1993 1st. ed.)

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The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells

New York, Atheneum, August 1993, 1st American edition

Hardcover, half cloth, with dust jacket
6.4" x 9.6" tall
240 Pages

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With black & white photographs

A paradoxical portrayal of an international literary phenomenon, whose audience included both Roosevelt and Stalin, shows that H. G. Wells was a misogynist champion for women's rights and a liberally tolerant anti-Semite.

"...an elegantly written biography..." --Peter Ackroyd, The Times

"...an entertaining and vigorously written work, enlivened with telling anecdotes...an eminently readable biography." --John Bemrose, Maclean's

"[The Invisible Man's] vigorous narrative drive earn[s] it a definite place among serious studies of the life and work of H.G. Wells." -- Books in Canada

For almost half a century H.G. Wells was an international literary phenomenon; the only writer of his time who could command an audience with both Roosevelt and Stalin.
Unlike any other biographer of Wells, Coren paints a composite portrait of an extremely varied life set against the social and political background of the time. The Invisible Man delves deeply into the paradox that was H.G. Wells: the utopian visionary and staunch advocate of women's suffrage versus the misogynistic womanizer and vicious anti-Semite. This book exposes for the first time his disturbing views on "the Jewish problem," views that he defended vehemently even through the 1930s.

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