Books December 1995
Misalliance
On the Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2: Bernard Shaw & H. G. Wells, edited by J. Percy Smith and H. G.: The History of Mr. Wells, by Michael Foot.
Horace Walpole claimed that the world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. The story of George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells could be aptly summed up in this dichotomy: Shaw was the thinking man par excellence, whose emotional detachment made him seem diabolically cold-blooded to many of his contemporaries, including Wells, while Wells was a man who hardly knew the meaning of the word “detachment”; his intellect, impressive...
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