A Quartette of Comedies.
WELLS, H.G.
A Quartette of Comedies.
"Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday!": First Edition of A Quartette of Comedies; signed by H.G. Wells
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928.
$1,500.00
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Item Number: 148954
First British omnibus edition of four comic novels culminating in “1100 pages from Mr. Wells’ magic pen.” Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed on the half-title page, “H.G. Wells Detroit Nov 9th 1931.” Very good in a very good dust jacket with darkening to the spine of the dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Uncommon signed.
H.G. Wells was a pioneering British writer and social thinker whose work helped define the genre of modern science fiction while engaging critically with the political and technological transformations of his time. A Quartette of Comedies (1924) brings together four of his earlier comic novels—Kipps (1905), Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900), The History of Mr. Polly (1910), and Bealby: A Holiday (1915)—into a single volume that highlights his sustained interest in the ordinary individual’s struggle against social expectations and personal limitations. Each work, though humorous in tone, reflects Wells’s incisive social criticism: Kipps and Mr. Polly satirize class mobility and middlebrow aspiration; Love and Mr. Lewisham exposes the tension between romantic idealism and material constraint; and Bealby portrays youthful rebellion against stifling authority.
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