Love and Mr Lewisham

Maybe 4.5. I thoroughly enjoyed this one - really engaging, dealing with a lot of fascinating and complex themes. It really reminded me of the work of George Gissing. Would highly recommend.......more

Sci-fi lovers be warned this is not the Wells you're used to. Mr. Lewisham is in love but at every turn life and Edwardian society seems to thwart their attempts to spend time together. Until one day Lewisham impulsivly follows the advice of a friend. Secretly they marry. They marry without ever havin......more

This is an odd little book. Not least because you don't expect a somewhat clumsy romance novel from the pen of H.G. Wells. The eponymous protagonist is pompous, pretentious and try-as-one-might, hard to like. The two women, badly etched caricatures of the physically appealing and pure-hearted but we......more

I came across this book by H.G.Wells after having read his later work Ann Veronica earlier this year a few months back. Unlike that later work this early Wells novel is not exactly perfect and not fully accomplished and realised. The principal flaws lie with the characters which are either not fully......more

A very excellent book to read, very light and easy, looking at young love, hopes and dreams for the future mixed with the reality of what actually happens. For all the potential that his book "The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll" had but never achieved for its potential, this book fully made up......more