H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine

The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells's staple methods of artistic composition - the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi.

Halszka Lelen, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland. She has published on H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, the Themersons and Bertrand Russell, John Berger, and the theory of fantastic fiction. She researches self-referential aspects of storytelling.