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"What Foot has done is write an old-fashioned biography reminiscent of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage". Minneapolis Star Tribune "An often provocative reassessment of Wells's life and ideas". Publishers Weekly "If other biographies can claim to be the best introduction to Wells's work...Foot's surely is the most charming". The Nation In this enlightening biography, Michael Foot, former leader of Britain's Labour Party, portrays the untiring intellect and restless lover in H. G. Wells, celebrating the contextual lucidity of Wells's ideas in his time and in ours.