Love and Mr Lewisham E-Book

H G Wells

• Herausgeber: Studium Legis
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Herbert George Wells, meglio conosciuto come H. G. Wells (Bromley, 21 settembre 1866 – Londra, 13 agosto 1946), è stato uno scrittore britannico tra i più popolari della sua epoca; autore di alcune delle opere fondamentali della fantascienza, è ricordato come uno degli iniziatori di tale genere narrativo.Fu comunque uno scrittore prolifico in molti generi, tra i quali narrativa contemporanea, storia e critica sociale. Wells fu un franco sostenitore del socialismo e del pacifismo, come dimostrano le sue ultime opere, divenute gradatamente più politiche e didattiche. I romanzi nel mezzo della sua carriera (1900-1920) furono più realistici, contemplando la vita della classe medio-bassa, la "Nuova donna" e le suffragette.Fu un forte assertore dell'idea di "Stato mondiale", alla cui promozione dedicò l'ultima parte della propria vita.Nel corso della sua lunga carriera Wells usò vari pseudonimi, tra cui quello di Reginald Bliss.

Leseprobe

Love and Mr Lewisham

H. G. Wells

Table of Contents

Introduces Mr. Lewisham.

“As the Wind Blows.”

The Wonderful Discovery.

Raised Eyebrows.

Hesitations.

The Scandalous Ramble.

The Reckoning.

The Career Prevails.

Alice Heydinger.

In the Gallery of Old Iron.

Manifestations.

Lewisham is Unaccountable.

Lewisham Insists.

Mr. Lagune’s Point of View.

Love in the Streets.

Miss Heydinger’s Private Thoughts.

In the Raphael Gallery.

The Friends of Progress Meet.

Lewisham’s Solution.

The Career is Suspended.

Home!

Epithalamy.

Mr. Chaffery at Home.

The Campaign Opens.

The First Battle.

The Glamour Fades.

Concerning a Quarrel.

The Coming of the Roses.

Thorns and Rose Petals.

A Withdrawal.

In Battersea Park.

The Crowning Victory.

Chapter 1

Introduces Mr. Lewisham.

The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love — indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third — and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called “Mr.” to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as “Sir.”

He wore ready-made clothes, his black jacket of rigid line was dusted about the front and sleeves with scholastic chalk, and his face was downy and his moustache incipient. He was a passable-looking youngster of eighteen, fair-haired, indifferently barbered, and with a quite unnecessary pair of glasses on his fairly prominent nose — he wore these to make himself look older, that discipline might be maintained. At the particular moment when this story begins he was in his bedroom. An attic it was, with lead-framed dormer windows, a slanting ceiling and a bulging wall, covered, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old-fashioned paper.

To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness. Over the head of the bed, for example, where good folks hang texts, these truths asserted themselves, written in a clear, bold, youthfully florid hand:—“Knowledge is Power,” and “What man has done man can do,”— man in the second instance referring to Mr. Lewisham. Never for a moment were these things to be forgotten. Mr. Lewisham could see them afresh every morning as his head came through his shirt. And over the yellow-painted box upon which — for lack of shelves — Mr. Lewisham’s library was arranged, was a “Schema.” (Why he should not have headed it “Scheme,” the editor of the Church Times, who calls his miscellaneous notes “Varia,” is better able to say than I.) In this scheme, 1892 was indicated as the year in which Mr. Lewisham proposed to take his B.A. degree at the London University with “hons. in all subjects,” and 1895 as the date of his “gold medal.” Subsequently there were to be “pamphlets in the Liberal interest,” and such like things duly dated. “Who would control others must first control himself,” remarked the wall over the wash-hand stand, and behind the door against the Sunday trousers was a portrait of Carlyle.