Cheeky
J.I.M. Stewart, 23 October 1986
H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal
by David Smith.
Yale, 634 pp., £18.50, September 1986,0 300 03672 8 Show More
by David Smith.
Yale, 634 pp., £18.50, September 1986,
“... by Wells the guise of a kind of literary frolic, is a would-be lethal attack upon an old friend, Henry James. The issues here are not altogether simple. It is certain that James had for long held Wells’s fiction in very high regard. He is on record as informing a group of Cambridge undergraduates in 1909 that Kipps was ‘the best novel of the last forty ... ”