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Informationen zum Autor David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places , Small World and Nice Work ( shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts . He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Klappentext "A moving, funny and masterful novel about the life of H.G. Wells - writer, thinker, lover and man of genius. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Has it been a success or a failure? Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence; a feminist womaniser, sensual yet incurably romantic, irresistible and exasperating by turns, but always vitally human." Zusammenfassung A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women.
