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This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with “human insufficiency.”
 
Mind at the End of its Tether
 
“One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Koestler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something no one could agree with, but something that couldn’t be taken lightly.”—Art Beck
 
“In the face of our universal inadequacy . . . man must go steeply up or down and the odds seem to be all in favor of his going down and out. If he goes up, then so great is the adaptation demanded of him that he must cease to be a man. Ordinary man is at the end of his tether.”—HG Wells
 
The Happy Turning
 
Wells’ barbed fantasies about the afterlife take the forms of

The Last Books of H.G. Wells

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      Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
      Publication Date: 12/14/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780976684312, 978-0976684312
      ISBN10: 0976684314

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with “human insufficiency.”
       
      Mind at the End of its Tether
       
      “One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Koestler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something no one could agree with, but something that couldn’t be taken lightly.”—Art Beck
       
      “In the face of our universal inadequacy . . . man must go steeply up or down and the odds seem to be all in favor of his going down and out. If he goes up, then so great is the adaptation demanded of him that he must cease to be a man. Ordinary man is at the end of his tether.”—HG Wells
       
      The Happy Turning
       
      Wells’ barbed fantasies about the afterlife take the forms of

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