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The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells.

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From: National Review
Date: 19940124
Author:Arkes, Hadley

IN A NOVEL of the late 1960s, Saul Bellow evidently thought he could amplify his main character, Arthur Sammler, a writer and intellectual, by giving Sammler a personal connection to the late English writer and man-about-the-world Herbert George (H. G.) Wells. And so Sammler would be moved to recall what Wells had related to him about his conversations with Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler, and his observations on "world peace, atomic energy, . . . [and] the colonization of the planets." Of Wells, Sammler would remark that "he was just a mass of intelligent views. He expressed ...

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