Love and Mr Lewisham is a hugely uplifting tale from the pen of one of our greatest writers. Wells drew on his own experience as a young teacher to provide the background and, one suspects, the emotional drama. The plot enables him to satirise the educational establishment and deliver many wry observations on Victorian morality and the obsession with the supernatural.

One day Mr Lewisham sits at his makeshift desk at his lodgings. He is an assistant master at Whortley proprietary school. He is 18 years old and he has a plan. In 6 years he will be fluent in 5 languages, have a good all round education, honours from university and the means to support himself. He will become one of the leading thinkers in the new Socialist movement and eventually his name and his work will be respected by all. He will achieve greatness.

This will be accomplished by diligent study. He will rise each morning at 5 and his day will be divided into work periods to enable him to develop his mind accumulating knowledge in the required subjects. His progress will be controlled by the plan - the ‘Schema’ Nothing will get in his way.

The next day Mr Lewisham falls in love ...

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	9 hrs 20 mins

Media	Compact Disc
Media Qty	8
Audio Format	CD-DA
Book Code	VI-128CD
ISBN	978 1 86015 037 1
Price	£22.99

Herbert George Wells (1866 –1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. Wells was the fifth and last child of a former domestic gardener a former domestic servant. A defining incident of young Wells' life is said to be an accident he had in 1874 when he was seven years old. He was dropped on a tent peg at the local sports ground and was left bedridden for a time with a broken leg. To pass the time, he started reading and soon became devoted to the other worlds and lives to which books gave him access; they also stimulated his desire to write. Wells' first bestseller was Anticipations, published in 1901. Well’s is now thought of simply as one of the pioneers of science fiction.

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