Mr Britling Sees it Through

from JohnPhelan

In 2014 I set myself a reading challenge that, on the centenary of events in the First World War, I would read the relevant book out of a pile I have had accumulating unread over the past twenty years. This challenge has expanded a bit and, to add to the military, economic, and political history,...

from brenzi

I've always associated H. G. Wells with science fiction but this book, written in 1916 in the midst of WWI, provides a thought-provoking look at what appears to be a typical British family before and during the war. Mr. Britling is a writer of some renown whose commentaries on the British governm...

from DLMorrese

This is a surprisingly powerful novel, but not one with aliens or fantastic machines or representations of utopian futures, which are the things for which H.G. Wells is most noted. This is not that kind of book. There isn't a driving plot that requires resolution. It falls firmly into the 'litera...

from baswood

When is a novel not a novel? That is a question that readers may well ask of [Mr Britling Sees it Through] as Wells seems more intent in depicting the life of a family in Essex (England) in the early years of the first World War than in developing a story line with a plot that might capture our i...

from rainpebble

Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H.G. Wells This Wells book (my first Wells non-sci-fi) was first published in 1916 and is set in the summer of 1914. Our Mr Britling, is an eccentric writer who spends his days at house parties & socializing with many international guests. When he tires of this lif...