ARTHUR JONES, Henry [H.G. Wells].
My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letters Addressed.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company , 1922.
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Henry Arthur Jones' My Dear Wells
First British edition, early printing of Jones’ a spirited series of public letters in which the English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones critiques and debates the political, social, and economic ideas of H. G. Wells in the turbulent years following the First World War. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with a frontispiece by Oliver Herford. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “Dream Archipelago” series, and The Prestige (1995), which was adapted into the 2006 Academy Award nominee film of the same name by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and Michael Caine. In very good condition. Publisher's note booklet and two newspaper clippings about "My Dear Wells" laid in.
My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letters Addressed by Henry Arthur Jones (1921) is a spirited and often satirical collection of open letters from the English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones to the novelist H. G. Wells. Originally published in newspapers, the letters engage Wells’s political and social ideas—particularly his views on socialism, Bolshevism, internationalism, and the redistribution of wealth—while defending more traditional British institutions and political thought. Written in a lively, argumentative style, Jones’s letters form a public intellectual debate of the early twentieth century, reflecting the ideological tensions that followed the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letters Addressed.
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