Abstract
During 1936 and 1937 Wells wrote three novellas which he termed ‘long short stories’—The Croquet Player, The Camford Visitation and Star Begotten. A note facing the title page of World Brain (a collection of essays published in 1938) draws the reader’s attention to these stories, ‘in which the same issues are viewed from a rather different angle’. It is clear, therefore, that Wells regarded the novellas, superficially so dissimilar, as linked by a common theme: the crisis confronting man in the mid-twentieth century.
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Hammond, J.R. (1979). Star Begotten. In: An H. G. Wells Companion. Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04146-6_24
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