Herbert George Wells

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Age: 51

Lives in: London, United Kingdom

Occupation: writer

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Herbert George Wells

London, United Kingdom

06.01.18

The Orthodox priest is quite unlike the Catholic priest in Western Europe; he is himself typically a dirty and illiterate peasant with no power over the wills and consciences of his people. See more

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Herbert George Wells

31.12.17

The Russian smash at the end of 1917 was certainly the completest that has ever happened to any modern social organisation. After the failure of the Kerensky Government to make peace and of the British naval authorities to relieve the situation upon the Baltic flank, the shattered Russian armies, weapons in hand, broke up and rolled back upon Russia, a flood of peasant soldiers making for home, without hope, without supplies, without discipline. See more

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Herbert George Wells with James Joyce

24.02.17

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss.

The value of Mr. Joyce's book has little to do with its incidental insanitary condition. Like some of the best novels in the world it is the story of an education; it is by far the most living and convincing picture that exists of an Irish Catholic upbringing. See more

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Age: 51

Lives in: London, United Kingdom

Occupation: writer

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Maxim Gorky

Romain Rolland