WELLS, H.G.
You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1941.
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951; From the Library of Christopher Priest
First edition of H.G. Wells’ late social novel, a wide-ranging examination of English life and social change in the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “Dream Archipelago” series, and The Prestige (1995), which was adapted into the 2006 Academy Award nominee film of the same name by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, and Michael Caine. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket.
You Can’t Be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901–1951 (1941) by H. G. Wells is a late social novel that traces the life of its protagonist across the first half of the twentieth century, using individual experience as a lens through which to examine modern English society. Blending satire with social commentary, Wells explores themes of class mobility, political reform, sexual mores, and the shifting moral landscape of the Edwardian and interwar periods. The novel reflects Wells’ longstanding interest in social progress and rational reform, embedding ideological debate within a narrative of personal development. As such, it functions both as a fictional life history and as a broad meditation on the transformations of modernity.
You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951.
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