An ambitious young science teacher's grand plans for the world collide with love, marriage, and ordinary compromise. Wells's semi-autobiographical novel of thwarted idealism.
Books mentioned in Love and Mr Lewisham (13)
Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: “I don't know if you have read Sesame and Lilies, but there you have, set forth far more fairly than any words of mine could do, an ideal of a woman's place ..."”
The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler: “sat before the upturned box on which his Butler's Analogy was spread open.”
Mr. Sludge, "The Medium" by Robert Browning: “"But I mean Browning's 'Sludge.' You know the poem." "No--I'm afraid I don't," said Lewisham. "I must lend it to you," she said.”
The Statue and the Bust by Robert Browning: “The book was a collection of Browning's Poems, and it contained "Sludge"; it also happened that it contained "The Statue and the Bust"--that stimulating lecture on half-hearted constraints.”
Woman under Socialism by August Bebel: “Bletherley was going to discourse of "Woman under Socialism," and he brought a big American edition of Shelley's works and a volume of Tennyson with the "Princess," both bristling with paper tongues against his marked quotations.”
The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: “Bletherley was going to discourse of "Woman under Socialism," and he brought a big American edition of Shelley's works and a volume of Tennyson with the "Princess," both bristling with paper tongues against his marked quotations.”
The Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: “He liked Rossetti--the exquisite sense of separation in "The Blessed Damozel" touched him.”
Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle: “He instantly forgot the vague design of lending her his "_Sartor Resartus_" in his curiosity to learn more about her home.”
The Evolution of Marriage by Charles Letourneau: “(The book from the Contemporary Science Series was Professor Letourneau's "Evolution of Marriage."”
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy: “"And have you read 'Looking Backward'?" "I want to." "I have it here with my other books, if you'd care for me to lend it to you.”
Progress and Poverty by Henry George: “He happened upon "Progress and Poverty" just then, and some casual numbers of the "Commonweal," and it was only too easy to accept the theory of cunning plotting capitalists and landowners, and faultless, righteous, martyr workers.”
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Jostling Shakespeare, Emerson's Essays, and the penny Life of Confucius, there were battered and defaced school books”
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare: “Its beauty seized upon him, and he forgot to repeat the passage from Henry VIII.”