Tony Grist (poliphilo) wrote,
Tony Grist
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Meanwhile: H.G. Wells

Sometimes Wells dramatizes his Utopianism and sometimes- as here- he simply has his characters talk it.  Meanwhile is a short novel, populated by poshos, set mainly on the Italian Riviera and chiefly memorable for its glimpses of Churchill rushing about behaving twattishly during the General Strike of 1926.  
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