Lewisham is an earnest assistant master at a Sussex school with a timetable for success pinned above his desk when he meets Ethel. Years later, studying science in South Kensington, he finds her again, assisting her stepfather, a fraudulent spiritualist medium, while the clever Miss Heydinger offers a very different kind of companionship.
Wells’s tender, ironic portrait of youthful ambition meeting real life, drawn partly from his own student years. Download the free EPUB.