Written in the years before 1914, these essays begin with Blériot crossing the Channel in 1909 and Wells’s own first flight, then move to the future of the Empire, labour unrest, syndicalism, social panaceas, the planned Great State, the common sense of warfare, the contemporary novel and a running quarrel with Chesterton and Belloc.
Wells the social prophet at full stretch, for readers curious about how Edwardian England imagined the coming century. Download the free EPUB.