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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...from Prague, there lived 1,200 human beings. Some worked in the orchards, gardens and fields which they owned; others were woodworkers and coal miners; still others walked 45 minutes every day to toil in the munitions plant at Kladno. Lidice had a churcht. Martin's—which was nearly five centuries old and to which the people of four nearby villages flocked on Sundays...
...book's major theme is the Wellsian life history (from zoosperm to zany) of Edward Albert ("Teddy") Tewler, who, for Author Wells, symbolizes the lower middle class in general, and the British lower middle class in particular. It is a classצr, more essentially, a state of being—which Herbert George Wells loathes (not without pity) with the aching contempt of familiarity. He springs from it. Wells feels the same aching contempt for 'Teddy" Tewler. But like all crusaders, he longs to redeem the thing he loathes. This novel is a fictional prelude to redemption. Its purpose...
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