"inn. Polly clashes with Jim until the latter accidentally drowns in a weir when he is chasing Polly. Several years later, Polly returns to Fishbourne to find Miriam operating a tea-shop with her sister, in the belief that Polly has drowned, and he returns to his happier life at the inn. The History of Mr. Polly (film) The History of Mr. Polly is a 1949 British film, based on the 1910 comic novel ""The History of Mr. Polly"" by H.G. Wells. It was directed by Anthony Pelissier (who is also credited with the script) and stars John Mills, Betty Ann"
"fiction taking place circa 1600. It became one of the many famous coaching inns in the days of Charles Dickens, and it was here that Sam Weller met Mr. Pickwick in the famous scene from ""The Pickwick Papers"", chapter 10. The Inn was pulled down in the 19th century. It was next door to The George Inn and near the site of The Tabard. Also in Southwark, but approximately 0.5 km to the west, the White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street was built in 1882. It survived redevelopment of the surrounding area and is now the only Victorian public"
"built in 1869. H.G. Wells was brought up at Uppark, South Harting, near Petersfield, where his mother was housekeeper. He also went to school and taught in Midhurst. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) also spent much of his life in Sussex, living in Rottingdean and later Burwash. While the novelist John Cowper Powys is particularly associated with Dorset and Wales, he lived in Sussex from the mid-1890s until 1910. Another modernist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and her husband Leonard, had a country retreat at Monk's House in Rodmell near in Lewes from 1919. They received there many important visitors connected to the Bloomsbury"
"Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island is a 1928 novel by H. G. Wells. The protagonist of the novel, Arnold Blettsworthy, is the scion of a genteel family prominent ""in the south and west of England."" Blettsworthy's father, however, was an adventurer who married a woman from Madeira. Both his mother and his father die early, and the young Blettsworthy is raised in Cheltenham by an aunt and an uncle who is a liberal Anglican priest. A complacent Edwardian worldview that an Oxford education did nothing to shake is undermined when Blettsworthy is betrayed in business"
"The Sleeper Awakes The Sleeper Awakes (1910) is a dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialised between 1898 and 1899. The novel was originally published, as ""When the Sleeper Wakes"","
"The Wonderful Visit The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel—a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel—as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified as contemporary fantasy, although the genre was not recognised in Wells's time. ""The Wonderful Visit"" also has strong satirical themes, gently mocking customs and institutions of Victorian England as well as idealistic rebellion itself. ""The Wonderful Visit"" tells how an angel spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic"
"The Wonderful Visit The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel—a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel—as protagonist and taking place in contemporary England, the book could be classified as contemporary fantasy, although the genre was not recognised in Wells's time. ""The Wonderful Visit"" also has strong satirical themes, gently mocking customs and institutions of Victorian England as well as idealistic rebellion itself. ""The Wonderful Visit"" tells how an angel spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic"
"Fountain House Hotel. The hotel bears a plaque commemorating its distinguished former resident. Returning several times to Hayes, Orwell was at the same time characteristically acerbic about his time in the town, camouflaging it lightly as West Bletchley in ""Coming Up for Air"", as Southbridge in ""A Clergyman's Daughter"", and grumbling comically in a letter to author/friend Frank Jellinek: ""Hayes . . . is one of the most godforsaken places I have ever struck. The population seems to be entirely made up of clerks who frequent tin-roofed chapels on Sundays and for the rest bolt themselves within doors."" King Edward"
"(1899, rewritten as ""The Sleeper Awakes"", 1910), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers. ""The Island of Doctor Moreau"" is even darker. The narrator, having been trapped on an island of animals vivisected (unsuccessfully) into human beings, eventually returns to England; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans as barely civilised beasts, slowly reverting to their animal natures. Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W."
"with the spinster Rachael Wardle of Dingley Dell manor, misadventures with Dr Slammer, and others. Further humour is provided when the comic cockney Sam Weller makes his advent in chapter 10 of the novel. First seen working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough, Weller is taken on by Mr Pickwick as a personal servant and companion on his travels and provides his own oblique ongoing narrative on the proceedings. The relationship between the idealistic and unworldly Pickwick and the astute cockney Weller has been likened to that between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Through humor Dickens is able"
"The Cone ""The Cone"" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in ""Unicorn"". It was intended to be ""the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns"", later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An artist is there to depict the industrial landscape; the manager of the ironworks discovers his affair with his wife, and takes him on a tour of the factory, where there are dangerous features. Raut, an artist, is visiting Horrocks, manager of the Jeddah Company Blast Furnaces, in order to study the"
"his life spent much time at Steyning and Withyham; John Galsworthy spent much of his life in Bury in the Sussex Downs; and Harold Pinter lived in Worthing in the 1960s. H.G. Wells was brought up at Uppark, South Harting, near Petersfield, where his mother was housekeeper. He also went to school and taught in Midhurst. While the novelist John Cowper Powys is particularly associated with Dorset and Wales, he lived in Sussex from the mid-1890s until 1910. Another modernist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and her husband Leonard, had a country retreat at Monk's House in Rodmell near Lewes from 1919."
"a range of anecdotes, songs, reflections and miscellany. The book is also Belloc's homage to ""this Eden which is Sussex still"" and conveys Belloc's ""love for the soil of his native land"" of Sussex. Beginning on 29 October 1902, the characters set out from The George Inn at Robertsbridge, where Belloc was a regular customer. From Robertsbridge the characters walk via various public houses, through Heathfield, Uckfield, Ardingly, Ashurst and Amberley to South Harting. The story takes place over five continuous days from 29 October 1902, to 2 November. In the Western Christian calendar the period culminates in Hallowe'en or"
"landscape. ""The Cone"" was included in the collection of Wells short stories ""The Plattner Story and Others"", published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was reprinted in ""The Country of the Blind and Other Stories"", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1911. The Cone ""The Cone"" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 in ""Unicorn"". It was intended to be ""the opening chapter of a sensational novel set in the Five Towns"", later abandoned. The story is set at an ironworks in Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire. An"
"his death. In 1895, he published three novellas, ""Eve's Ransom"", ""The Paying Guest"" and ""Sleeping Fires"", reflecting the changing tastes of the reading public, which were moving away from three-volume novels. In 1897 Gissing met H. G. Wells and his wife, who spent the spring with him and his sister at Budleigh Salterton. Wells said Gissing was ""no longer the glorious, indefatigable, impracticable youth of the London flat, but a damaged and ailing man, full of ill-advised precautions against the imaginary illnesses that were his interpretations of a general malaise."" Soon after separating from Edith, Gissing made a second trip"
"in the ""Pall Mall Gazette"" in which he expressed satisfaction that he had been born in an earlier, more rural Bromley. A blue plaque marks Wells' birthplace in Market Square, on the wall of what is now a Primark store. A marble plaque appears above the door of 8 South Street, the location of Mrs Knott's Dame school where ""Bertie"", as he was called as a child, learned to read and write. H.G. Wells featured Bromley in two of his novels: The War in the Air (which refers to Bromley as Bunhill) and The New Machiavelli (in which Bromley is"
"he planned and wrote ""The War of the Worlds"" and ""The Time Machine"", completed ""The Island of Dr Moreau"", wrote and published ""The Wonderful Visit"" and ""The Wheels of Chance"", and began writing two other early books, ""When The Sleeper Wakes"" and ""Love and Mr Lewisham"". In late summer 1896, Wells and Jane moved to a larger house in Worcester Park, near Kingston upon Thames, for two years; this lasted until his poor health took them to Sandgate, near Folkestone, where he constructed a large family home, Spade House, in 1901. He had two sons with Jane: George Philip (known"
"praised the book and read it aloud to his wife in the evening. Joan and Peter Joan and Peter, a 1918 novel by H. G. Wells, is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of World War I, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education. Wells regarded it as ""one of the most ambitious"" of his novels. The novel begins in 1893 with the birth of Peter Stublands, but the first three chapters are"
"Meanwhile (novel) Meanwhile is a 1927 novel by H. G. Wells set in an Italian villa early in 1926. It was chosen as an alternate selection of the recently founded Book of the Month Club and was translated into a number of languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Polish, and Czech. In England, 30,000 copies sold within two months, and by the summer of 1929 50,000 had been sold. ""Meanwhile"" is divided into two books: ""The Utopographer in the Garden"" and ""Advent"". In the first book, Cynthia and Philip Rylands, a wealthy British couple, are entertaining guests at Casa Terragena, an Italian"
"The Red Room (short story) ""The Red Room"" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of ""The Idler"" magazine. An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to ""the Red Room"" to begin his night's vigil. Initially confident, the narrator becomes increasingly uneasy in the room. He attempts to conquer his fear by lighting"
"to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. Eventually the heroes and their followers foil an attempted coup by an Islamic military force. The novel includes the poem, ""The Rolling English Road"". The poem was first published under the title ""A Song of Temperance Reform"" in the ""New Witness"" in 1913. The Flying Inn The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of ""Progressive"" Islam to dominate the political"
"it at all. Meanwhile (novel) Meanwhile is a 1927 novel by H. G. Wells set in an Italian villa early in 1926. It was chosen as an alternate selection of the recently founded Book of the Month Club and was translated into a number of languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Polish, and Czech. In England, 30,000 copies sold within two months, and by the summer of 1929 50,000 had been sold. ""Meanwhile"" is divided into two books: ""The Utopographer in the Garden"" and ""Advent"". In the first book, Cynthia and Philip Rylands, a wealthy British couple, are entertaining guests at Casa"
"The New Machiavelli The New Machiavelli is a 1911 novel by H. G. Wells that was serialised in ""The English Review"" in 1910. Because its plot notoriously derived from Wells's affair with Amber Reeves and satirised Beatrice and Sidney Webb, it was ""the literary scandal of its day"". ""The New Machiavelli"" purports to be written in the first person by its protagonist, Richard ""Dick"" Remington, who has a lifelong passion for ""statecraft"" and who dreams of recasting the social and political form of the English nation. Remington is a brilliant student at Cambridge, writes several books on political themes, marries"
"first novel, ""The Time Machine"", in 1895. In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells. The couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins (later known as Jane), with whom he moved to Woking, Surrey in May 1895. They lived in a rented house, 'Lynton', (now No.141) Maybury Road in the town centre for just under 18 months and married at St Pancras register office in October 1895. His short period in Woking was perhaps the most creative and productive of his whole writing career, for while there"
"Twist"" by Charles Dickens. Sunbury's islands and the ardour of rowing up Sunbury backwater (weir stream) to access the public riverside are mentioned in ""Three Men in a Boat"" by Jerome K. Jerome. Sunbury is the setting for the 1890 novel ""Kit and Kitty"" by R. D. Blackmore. Sunbury is passed through briefly in H.G. Wells's ""The War of the Worlds"", where it is described to have been partially covered in heavy, inky vapor by the Martians. Sunbury is mentioned in the opening chapter of ""Rural Rides"" by farmers' champion William Cobbett: ""All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon"
"Ole Bull (the musician), and Lyman Howe (the landlord). Tales of a Wayside Inn Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The book, published in 1863, depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts as each tells a story in the form of a poem. The poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 20 miles from the poet's home in Cambridge, and a favorite resort for parties from Harvard College. The narrators are"
"had nicknamed ""little e"" and who had become his lover late in 1910 and with whom he enjoyed assignations at her house, the Château Soleil, in the Alps, at the ski resort of Montana, Switzerland. ""The Passionate Friends"" is also notable as the first introduction of Wells's notion of an ""open conspiracy"" of individuals to achieve a world state through an ""open conspiracy against potentates and prejudices and all the separating powers of darkness."" ""The Passionate Friends"" was appreciated by Wells's friends Ford Madox Hueffer and Violet Hunt, and by Maurice Baring. Reviews were largely positive. Wells affected, in a"
"Sam Weller (character) Sam Weller is a fictional character in ""The Pickwick Papers"", the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared in the tenth serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly—the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon. Weller's way of quoting people has led to the wellerism, often a type of proverb. In chapter 10 of the novel, the eponymous hero Mr. Pickwick meets Sam Weller working at the White Hart Inn in The Borough and soon takes him on"
"Joan and Peter Joan and Peter, a 1918 novel by H. G. Wells, is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of World War I, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education. Wells regarded it as ""one of the most ambitious"" of his novels. The novel begins in 1893 with the birth of Peter Stublands, but the first three chapters are devoted to the lives of his parents. Peter's father, Arthur, is one of"
"Bealby Bealby: A Holiday is a 1915 comic novel by H. G. Wells. ""Bealby"" is the story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the ""nouveau riche"" couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor. Bealby's week-long ""holiday"" has three phases. First, he is taken up by three women in caravan, one of whom, Madeleine Philips, is a well-known actress whose beauty inspires"
"Ann Veronica Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. ""Ann Veronica"" describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, ""a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty"", against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. ""Ann Veronica"" offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament. Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's"
"part a portrait of Wells's second wife, Amy Catherine Robbins (better known as Jane). The protagonist of the novel is George Ponderevo, whose most intimate life the reader shares; his uncle Edward, on the other hand, remains a somewhat flat character whose chief function is to symbolise the ""wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking"" that became, in Wells's view, the most important social force in late-Victorian and Edwardian England. England is interpreted in the novel as a ""social organism"". The country estate of Bladesover, ""up on the Kentish Downs,"" epitomises a ""seventeenth-century system"" which offers ""the clue"
"phantom, but he surprises them by explaining that there is no ghost residing in the room. The room is haunted by fear itself. The story is illustrated by Barry Moser as part of the 1998 children's book, ""Great Ghost Stories"", complete with an afterword by Peter Glassman. The Red Room (short story) ""The Red Room"" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of ""The Idler"" magazine. An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove"