Titlebook: H.G. Wells and the Short Story; J. R. Hammond Book 1992 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992 argue.bibliogr

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A Hideous Grimace latent evil and cruelty in the human make-up but the pain and violence endemic in nature. As a small child he had studied a copy of Sturm’s . in which his mother had obliterated with stamp-paper a picture representing hell-fire. For some, years terrifying visions of hell and torture animated his bo

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The Magic Crystalm was the relationship between the physical world and the world of the mind; he explored this relationship in a series of essays, fantasias and visions beginning with ‘The Rediscovery of the Unique’ in 1891 and culminating in . in 1945. In . (1942) he reminded his readers that for many years he had

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The Man Alonee disproportionate significance of apparently random occurrences: an accident of birth, a chance reading of a book, an unforeseen encounter. His own life had been considerably deflected by chance. When he was a boy of seven he fractured his leg, an accident which necessitated a long convalescence du

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Lost Orientationsd in ., Stephen Stratton in . are men who are haunted by longings, by a sense that somewhere in life there are possibilities of beauty, desire and achievement which have eluded them. In . the narrator observes that deep in Mr Polly’s being resided a persuasion ‘that somewhere — magically inaccessibl

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First and Last Thingssed by the riddle of life and a search for the underlying meaning of existence. Though fundamentally agnostic on all matters of belief — ‘it is just as possible as not there are intelligent beings above me capable of watching my mental proceedings’. — the diversity of his writings bear witness to hi

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Teaching Chemistry – A Studybookyday realities. In such stories as ‘Answer to Prayer’ and ‘The Story of the Last Trump’ his main purpose seems to be to challenge or question accepted notions of belief, whilst in ‘The Door in the Wall’, ‘The Country of the Blind’ and ‘A Dream of Armageddon’ he compels the reader to re-examine fundamental attitudes to life and behaviour.

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First and Last Thingsyday realities. In such stories as ‘Answer to Prayer’ and ‘The Story of the Last Trump’ his main purpose seems to be to challenge or question accepted notions of belief, whilst in ‘The Door in the Wall’, ‘The Country of the Blind’ and ‘A Dream of Armageddon’ he compels the reader to re-examine fundamental attitudes to life and behaviour.

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Book 1992ontribution to the genre grounded firmly in his approach to fiction. The study demonstrates that Wells‘s short stories merit far closer critical attention than they have yet received and possess considerable psychological and symbolic insight.

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