Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells

"Love and Mr. Lewisham" by H. G. Wells is a novel published in 1900. An eighteen-year-old teacher falls in love with a young woman, loses his position, and later reunites with her in London while studying science. Their marriage forces him to abandon his dreams of a brilliant career. The story explores the tension between ambition and love, closely mirroring events from Wells's own life as a struggling student and teacher in 1880s England. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Title Love and Mr. Lewisham
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_and_Mr_Lewisham
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 75.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Satire
Subject Love stories
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject Spiritualists -- England -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 11640
Release Date
Last Update Dec 18, 2025
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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