Farfetched Fables
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Farfetched Fables is a collection of six short plays by George Bernard Shaw in which he outlines several of his most idiosyncratic personal ideas. The fables are preceded by a long preface. The ideas
George Bernard Shaw 1934 12 06
H. G. Wells
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Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics,
Farfetched Fables
…clearly drawing on Hegelian ideas of a dialectic of the spirit. Stanley Weintraub argued that Shaw was far less despairing than his Fabian colleague H. G. Wells, but that the play is still one of "despair, gloom and death". Julius Novick noted the references to the creation of Israel in the figure of the Jewish…
Wells in 1920
Young Wells, "Bertie" as he was known, c. 1870s
Wells spent the winter of 1887–88 convalescing at Uppark in Sussex, where his mother, Sarah, was the housekeeper.
Commemorative plaque in Midhurst, West Sussex, marking where Wells lodged while a teacher at Midhurst Grammar School between 1883 and 1884