Word: wellses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EYES IN THE WALL-Carolyn Wells- Lippincott ($2). The title phrase allows Fleming Stone his solution of three murders among Greenwich Village artists.
SEVEN FAMOUS NOVELS-H. G. Wells- Knopf ($2.75).
Twenty-five years ago Herbert George Wells was a youngster of 42. His name stood for exuberant modernity, trailblazing science and a freely roving intelligence always starting up some new species of Utopian hare. But most of all it stood for exciting tales-plausible narrations of improbable happenings. Last week...
In a revelatory preface. Author Wells comes as close as he ever has to defending his own development. It annoys him that these stories should have got him the name of "the English Jules Verne. As a matter of fact there is no literary resemblance whatever between the anticipatory inventions...
With the current verdict that with age he has become more garrulous and less worthwhile. Author Wells snappishly disagrees, preferring himself as he is now. "People are simply warned that there are ideas in my books and advised not to read them, and so a fatal suspicion has wrapped about...