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The invisible friends: The Lost Worlds of Henry James and H. G. Wells.(Critical essay)

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From: Extrapolation
Date: 20060322
Author:McMillan, Gloria

 
  I had the queer feeling that we were both incompatibly right. 
  --H. G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography 

In this essay, I hope to shed light on two lost worlds: a lost literary friendship and a loss of potential for the novel. The friendship of Henry James and H. G. Wells has been the subject of more than one study, including Douglass Keesey's attempt to defuse the final feud between the two men (The Henry James Review, Winter 1985). But the statements that led to the breakup of this friendship still have much to tell us about how communication goes wrong, even, or perhaps ...

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