Richard Lung

HG Wells Beyond Backward Politics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

I originally intended to call this book: Don't You Ever Read Anything But Serious Books? Volume 5. And, in a sense, it still is.
This was because I found one remaining pocket diary, in which I had made notes on my reading. It included the earliest books, which I had taken-on, after further education, in the early nineteen seventies. This was the kind of reading I was doing in volume 1. But it only came to scarcely 10,000 words, after including a few extras from other diaries.
I then decided to do what I'd always put off doing. That is writing a substantial essay directly on H G Wells. I made it up to about the same length, without too much trouble or repetition of many previous allusions. I then realised this was the most significant work, not just by far the longest, in the book.
True, I regarded the politics of Wells as critical. But there was far more to the man than his politics. And I wanted to do justice to various aspects. That is how this work came to be called: H G Wells Beyond Backward Politics.
As a practical failure and refugee from the academic life, I still devoted myself to private study. For nearly 40 years, I sought every available second-hand book-shop, usually charity shops, and jumble sales for good books. The special delight of my emotionally deprived and pathetic existence was to find yet another HG Wells title, when such things were yet about. Eventually the internet came to my aid, and I ordered ten Wells books, at once, from Amazon. My last purchase was Collected Letters of HG Wells, including his last years, which was a comfort to my own last years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Lung
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227333865
• Artikelnr.: 72372950

Autorenporträt

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.

While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.

Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....

Authors have played a big part in my life.
Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?
But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.
I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books.
I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!
2014, slightly modified 2022.