Friday, 15 April 2016

New wave of old tide


ON the horizon, we were warned, was a coming tidal wave of  HG Wells’s works published again. The occasion is that this year he will come out of copyright. Riding the wave will be the excellent editions of Oxford World Classics.

HG Wells at Sandgate, and soon with you again 

          The news came at a reading-aloud of Wells’s short story The Door in the Wall about a man who keeps seeing the same tempting door in the same wall but in  different parts of London.   At the lectern was Robert Lloyd Parry, the actor-producer exponent of one-man


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Robert Lloyd Parry: warning of HG Wells tidal wave
photo courtesy Nunkie Productions
re-enactments best-known for his M.R James ghost stories. The night location was a mysterious public house tucked away down an obscure historic alley  in the city of London.

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