H G Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography, and even two books of recreational war games. He is best remembered now for his science fiction novels including The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), but during his own lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking social critic and from an early date was an outspoken socialist. His 1918 novel Joan and Peter is ...
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H G Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography, and even two books of recreational war games. He is best remembered now for his science fiction novels including The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), but during his own lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking social critic and from an early date was an outspoken socialist. His 1918 novel Joan and Peter is at once a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and Edwardian England, a critique of the English educational system on the eve of the First World War, a study of the impact of that war on English society, and a general reflection on the purposes of education. Wells himself regarded it as one of his most ambitious novels. Peter Stublands, born in 1893, is the son of Dolly, a vicar's daughter from a well-off family, and Arthur, a devotee of the Arts and Crafts movement and a Fabian socialist. He is brought up alongside Joan, the daughter of Dolly's brother born outside wedlock and entrusted to the Stublands. When Dolly and Arthur are both drowned, the guardianship of the two children falls first to Arthur's sisters, eccentric suffragettes with radical views, who place them in a 'faddish' school based around the ideas of Froebel and Ruskin, but they are later kidnapped by Dolly's staid Aunt Charlotte whose aim is to educate them more traditionally - with unhappy consequences for the children. When Dolly's cousin Oswald returns from Africa he takes over sole guardianship of Peter and Joan and undertakes to find them the best education possible. As they reach maturity, now both students at Cambridge, Joan and Peter, who have grown up as siblings, discover a deeper feeling for one another. Peter enlists in the Royal Flying Corps at the outset of the war and when he returns home on leave after being wounded Joan reveals her love for him and they marry, looking forward to the emergence of a new World State after the war.
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Ex-Library. First printing. "Joan and Peter is an indictment of "the educational stagnation of England during those crucial years before the Great War." [from Wikipedia] Includes four pages of publisher ads in rear. Ex-library with no external markings, lacking a dustjacket, a good reading copy.
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Very Good+ Book With ads. Small pale stamped info fr endpaper, lightly age-discoloredendpapers, else clean. Tight, attractive. very good+, no dj, gold-stamped deep red cloth 594 pgs.
Add this copy of Joan and Peter: the Story of an Education to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1918 by The Macmillam.
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover slightly scuffed with corners and spine bumped and slightly worn. Inside front cover has peice of typed paper taped inside. Text lightly tanning.
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Very Good. Very good hardcover. Later printing. Text clean. Brown spots on inside covers and on endpapers. Corners on red cover bent. Spine ends bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Add this copy of Joan and Peter-the Story of an Education to cart. $18.00, good condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1918 by Macmillan Co..
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Good. First edition. Good hardcover without dust jacket. First edition. The book spine ends and cover corners have light wear. The book covers have light fading and soiling. The book foredges and endpapers have light spotting. The front hinge is cracked. The text is clean. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in red cloth. 1st US edition, in red cloth with badly worn & dull gilt. Owner's inscription on front pastedown; end papers & page fore-edge a little foxed & yellowed; a few spots of foxing in text; back hinge repaired. Head & foot of spine worn; cloth on spine discoloured & spotted.
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