Book description
Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is
determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from
attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave
her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a
world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes ? a place where, as
a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But
when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly
falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.
H. G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published
more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and
programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was
first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he
became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His
controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly
developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was,
in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.
Margaret Drabble is the author of fiction and non-ficton and she has
edited the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She is a CBE and a
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Sita A. Sch tt was until recently Ass stant Professor in the English
Language and Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. She has
published articles on French and English detective fiction and Ford
Madox Ford. She is currently writing a novel.
