![]() ![]() Wells was enjoying a moment of self-mockery in the introduction to his first book for John Lane, publisher of the 1890s most associated with Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, the Yellow Book and other aesthetic icons. Wells, Select Conversations with an Uncle, 1895įew who knew him could doubt that H.G. He had a low opinion of eminent people-a thing I have been careful to suppress, and his dissertations had ever an irresponsible gaiety of manner that may have blinkered me to their true want of merit. At times his fluency was really remarkable. ![]() He was, I remember, short, but by no means conspicuously short, and of a bright, almost juvenile complexion, very active in his movements and garrulous-or at least very talkative. His judgements were copious and frequent in the old days and some at least I found entertaining. ![]()
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