Shadow Lovers UK Edition (eBook)

The Last Affairs Of H.g.wells

Andrea Lynn (Autor)

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2019
576 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-000-31134-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Nearing 70, and in what would be the last decade of his life, H.G. Wells fell in love at least three times - once with the much younger Baroness Budberg, and soon thereafter with two well-born Americans, Constance Coolidge and Martha Gelhorn, 25 and 40 years his junior respectively. These would constitute what Wells himself described as his "e;last flounderings towards the wife idea"e;, and demonstrate in many ways that Wells was driven less by his considerable intelligence than by his obsession to find his ideal lover - what he called his "e;lover-shadow"e;. This study looks at this very personal side of H.G. Wells. The self-proclaimed Don Juan was said to have "e;radiated"e; energy: intellectual, emotional, physical and sexual. Drawing on papers made public by the Wells estate, the author documents Wells' relationship with each of these femme fatales and paints a vivid portrait of the early part of the 20th century in London, Paris and the US.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-000-31134-1 / 1000311341
• ISBN-13: 978-1-000-31134-1 / 9781000311341