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    The World of William Clissold is a 1926 novel by H. G. Wells published initially in three volumes. The first volume was published in September to coincide...
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  • under its original title. Many of its ideas are anticipated in Wells's 1926 novel The World of William Clissold. The book is, in Wells's words, a "scheme...
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  • Banned in Boston (category Censorship in the United States)
    Passos (1927) Mosquitoes by William Faulkner (1927) Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten (1927) The World of William Clissold by H. G. Wells (1927) Dark Laughter...
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    sexually frank novel Tropic of Cancer, and Olympia Press, which published William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Both of these, the work of father Jack Kahane and...
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    "The Door in the Wall" is a short story by H. G. Wells first published in the Daily Chronicle in 1906 and first collected in his The Country of the Blind...
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    in Grasse, France. Wells dedicated his longest book to her (The World of William Clissold, 1926). When visiting Maxim Gorky in Russia 1920, he had slept...
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  • "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...
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  • Anthony West (author) (category British expatriates in the United States)
    author and literary critic. West was born Anthony Panther West Fairfield, the son of British authors Rebecca West and H. G. Wells. His parents never married...
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  • Wells (14 July 1828 – 14 October 1910) was an English cricketer and father of the noted author H. G. Wells. Wells was born at Penshurst Place in Kent. His...
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    Heart (1922) Men Like Gods (1923) The Dream (1924) Christina Alberta's Father (1925) The World of William Clissold (1926) Meanwhile (1927) Mr. Blettsworthy...
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