Love and Mr Lewisham

by H. G. Wells

Overview

Love and Mr. Lewisham is an 1899 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells. It was among his first outside the science fiction genre. Wells took considerable pains over the manuscript and said of it that "the writing was an altogether more serious undertaking than I have ever done before." He later included it in a 1933 anthology entitled Stories of Men and Women in Love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781519571236
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/28/2015
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T. H. Huxley. With THE TIME MACHINE (1895) he made his breakthrough.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England

Table of Contents

1	Introduces Mr Lewisham	1
2	'As the Wind Blows'	9
3	The Wonderful Discovery	19
4	Raised Eyebrows	25
5	Hesitations	33
6	The Scandalous Ramble	39
7	The Reckoning	51
8	The Career Prevails	61
9	Alice Heydinger	67
10	In the Gallery of Old Iron	73
11	Manifestations	79
12	Lewisham Is Unaccountable	91
13	Lewisham Insists	95
14	Mr Lagune's Point of View	103
15	Love in the Streets	109
16	Miss Heydinger's Private Thoughts	117
17	In the Raphael Gallery	121
18	The Friends of Progress Meet	127
19	Lewisham's Solution	139
20	The Career Is Suspended	147
21	Home!	155
22	Epithalamy	159
23	Mr Chaffery at Home	165
24	The Campaign Opens	185
25	The First Battle	193
26	The Glamour Fades	209
27	Concerning a Quarrel	217
28	The Coming of the Roses	231
29	Thorns and Rose Petals	239
30	A Withdrawal	251
31	In Battersea Park	261
32	The Crowning Victory	269