Ann Veronica: xxxvii (Penguin Classics)

Ann Veronica: xxxvii (Penguin Classics)

by Margaret Drabble (Introduction), Margaret Drabble (Introduction), Margaret Drabble (Introduction), H. G. Wells (Author), Sita Schutt (Editor)

Synopsis

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes - a place where, as a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 31 Mar 2005

ISBN 10: 0141441097
ISBN 13: 9780141441092

Author Bio
H. G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.