Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs of H. G. Wells by Andrea Lynn ISBN 13: 9781903985199

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New York: Perseus Press. 1st/1st. Near fine/near fine copy . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2001.

. Very Good. 1903985196. dw, 2001, 530pp . 2002. Hardcover.

Reading, Mass. ; Oxford : Perseus, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in paper-covered boards, in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxvii,530p,[8] leaves of plates : ill.,facsims., ports. ; 24cm. Notes: Originally published: Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000. Subjects: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 ; Correspondence; Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Relations with women; Novelists, English 20th century ; Biography; English fiction Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) interpersonal relationships.

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Westview Press Inc, 2002. Hardcover. New. 576 pages. 9.13x6.30x1.81 inches.

Nearing 70, and in what would be the last decade of his life, H.G. Wells fell in love at least three times - once with the much younger Baroness Budberg, and soon thereafter with two well-born Americans, Constance Coolidge and Martha Gelhorn, 25 and 40 years his junior respectively. These would constitute what Wells himself described as his "last flounderings towards the wife idea", and demonstrate in many ways that Wells was driven less by his considerable intelligence than by his obsession to find his ideal lover - what he called his "lover-shadow". This study looks at this very personal side of H.G. Wells. The self-proclaimed Don Juan was said to have "radiated" energy: intellectual, emotional, physical and sexual. Drawing on papers made public by the Wells estate, the author documents Wells' relationship with each of these femme fatales and paints a vivid portrait of the early part of the 20th century in London, Paris and the US.