Love and Mr Lewisham

by H. G. Wells, Simon James (Editor), Gillian Beer (Introduction)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141921167
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	05/26/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual 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'.

Gillian Beer is a famed writer and critic. She is Emeritus Professor at Girton College, Cambridge.

Simon J. James is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Durham. He has written on, and edited works by, George Gissing and H.G. Wells.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England

Table of Contents

1	Introduces Mr Lewisham	1
2	'As the Wind Blows'	9
3	The Wonderful Discovery	19
4	Raised Eyebrows	25
5	Hesitations	33
6	The Scandalous Ramble	39
7	The Reckoning	51
8	The Career Prevails	61
9	Alice Heydinger	67
10	In the Gallery of Old Iron	73
11	Manifestations	79
12	Lewisham Is Unaccountable	91
13	Lewisham Insists	95
14	Mr Lagune's Point of View	103
15	Love in the Streets	109
16	Miss Heydinger's Private Thoughts	117
17	In the Raphael Gallery	121
18	The Friends of Progress Meet	127
19	Lewisham's Solution	139
20	The Career Is Suspended	147
21	Home!	155
22	Epithalamy	159
23	Mr Chaffery at Home	165
24	The Campaign Opens	185
25	The First Battle	193
26	The Glamour Fades	209
27	Concerning a Quarrel	217
28	The Coming of the Roses	231
29	Thorns and Rose Petals	239
30	A Withdrawal	251
31	In Battersea Park	261
32	The Crowning Victory	269