Word: bulpington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from this quibbling, Mr. Wells' latest book is undoubtedly the best that he has produced in many years. It is a resume of the most dire forecasts and the brightest predictions for the future. It shows the striking power of imagination absent from such night-mares as "The Bulpington of Blup," and the ideas presented in it are worthy of more than dinner-table consideration. It is absurd to take some portions of it seriously as it is foolish to take others lightly. To appraise it absolutely is impossible till the future reveals its secrets; it is an interesting...
...Houghton Mifflin and Little, Brown & Co. had been persuaded to pool resources, experiment with a one-column advt. every other week. Price: $1,800. Each publishing house will advertise one book in each insertion. First four books, already solid successes, to be advertised in the March 25 issue: The Bulpington of Blup (Macmillan), The Kennel Murder Case (Scribner), Mutiny on the Bounty (Little, Brown), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (Houghton Mifflin). Each title will have to sell 2,000 copies (profit: 25? per volume) to make the advertisement repay its publisher...
...steam at a great rate. So argumentative did his novels become that after a while they ceased to be novels, turned to Outlines of History, Sciences of Life, Salvagings of Civilization. Not since Meanwhile (1927) has he written a book that even he would call a novel. With The Bulpington of Blup, which he describes as the "adventures, poses, stresses, conflicts and disaster in a contemporary brain," Novelist Wells is back in his old wallow, dredging up all the old exhibits...
From his childhood up Theodore Bulpington had an imaginary alter ego which he called the Bulpington of Blup, a romantic dream-figure in which he increasingly took refuge from the drab reality of himself. Only child of a dilettante critic and an "advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic, late-1890-ish world, soon took on the protective coloration of his environment. When he met Professor Broxted's children, Teddy and Margaret, he became aware of Science. From then on it was one long discussion, foaming with excitable Wellsian phrases and figures of speech. The children grew...
...that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very reason. Since the hero, Theodore Bulpington, occupies the centre of the stage to the exclusion of other complete and living characters, the novel contains little that is less shadowy than the main caricature...