David Lodge’s top 10 HG Wells books

The novelist selects his favourites from the vast and various output of The Time Machine author Born in 1935, David Lodge is the author of 14 novels including Nice Work, Thinks… and Deaf Sentence. He is also Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught between 1960 and 1987. As well as his fiction, he has written numerous books of criticism. His new novel, A Man of Parts, is a fictionalised account of HG Wells’s life and career. Reviewing it in the Guardian, Blake Morrison said it “bounds along terrifically and never tires” while showing “what made Wells, in his lifetime, so irresistible”. “HG Wells (1866-1946) was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. He is probably best known today as the author of classic works of science fiction, but he published well over 100 books in his lifetime, of many different kinds: novels and short stories that were realistic, fantastic, comic, tragic, and didactic, utopias and dystopias, social criticism, reportage, travel, autobiography and biography, world history … and also found time to edit collaborative encyclopaedic works on science and economics. I have selected 10 personal favourites from this abundance.” 1.

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