This is one of my favorite short stories by Wells, who is also my literary avatar. One of my novels is my tribute to Wells, a failed art novel no less, as he himself had many thereof. It is perhaps fitting that the narrator's drunkenness allows him, at first, to have a rapport with the ghost that in sobriety he would not have attained. Similarly, perhaps, read a number of his novels after a few drinks.
Amazing idea - maybe I should do 'tequila and a tale' next! Have you seen 'Dead of Night' and if so, what did you make of the segment based on this story? It's got a lot more golfing.
I am completely immersed in Wells lately. I'm currently halfway through Tono-Bungay which is like nothing you'd expect from the guy who wrote War of the World's.
This is one of my favorite short stories by Wells, who is also my literary avatar. One of my novels is my tribute to Wells, a failed art novel no less, as he himself had many thereof. It is perhaps fitting that the narrator's drunkenness allows him, at first, to have a rapport with the ghost that in sobriety he would not have attained. Similarly, perhaps, read a number of his novels after a few drinks.
Amazing idea - maybe I should do 'tequila and a tale' next! Have you seen 'Dead of Night' and if so, what did you make of the segment based on this story? It's got a lot more golfing.
You know I have not so something to check out! Here is the link to my own effort in his vein: https://www.amazon.com/About-Others-G-V-Loewen-ebook/dp/B0C46LZPL7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2R3AW6X0NUAB1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SmhGO7PT7XZ_O4WIJciX4Q.Fg156qGLOi2q9Wn_3MD8rXs61DA0CeYtEjN8DsyEaAQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=About+the+Others+G.V.+Loewen&qid=1750892761&sprefix=about+the+others+g.v.+loewen%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1
Lovely thank you!
That was fun - didn't know that one. For some reason, I've always preferred listening to Wells to reading him.
And even better when it’s Richard Burton!
Love a random reference to the Masons, Grandad was a Mason
You can ALWAYS fit a random masons reference into a short story
I am completely immersed in Wells lately. I'm currently halfway through Tono-Bungay which is like nothing you'd expect from the guy who wrote War of the World's.
I do think Tono-Bungay is actually one of his best efforts, and poignantly autobiographical.
I wrote a commentary on his 1899 'The Sleeper Awakes' which appears here:
https://drgvloewen.substack.com/p/a-modernist-gospel?utm_source=publication-search
Excellent! I’ll add them to my ‘to-read’ list
I think I only knew War of the Worlds and The Time Machine so it’s been really fun to discover all these other genres he worked in!
He wrote 90 books, including 51 novels, so there's likely something for everyone in such a corpus.