Shadow Lovers: The Last Affairs Of H. G. Wells
By Andrea Lynn.
Description
Nearing age 70, and in what would be the last decade of his life, H. G. Wells fell in love at least three timesonce with the much younger Baroness Moura Budberg, and soon thereafter with two well-born Americans, Constance Coolidge and Martha Gellhorn, twentyfive and forty years his junior, respectively. These would constitute what Wells himself described as his last flounderings towards the wife idea” and demonstrate in many ways that Wells was driven less by his considerable intelligence than by his obsession to find his ideal lover what he called his lover-shadow.” In Sh...
ISBN(s)
0813333946, 9780813333946
