1927 Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Set in an Italian villa in early 1926, this novel is divided into two books. In the first book, Cynthia and Philip Rylands, a wealthy British couple, are entertaining guests at Casa Terragena, an Italian villa with a famous garden on the Italian Riviera. The second "book" is dominated by Philip Rylands's letters describing the British political situation and his recruitment to the Open Conspiracy, Wells's plan for establishing a World Republic. Written by Herbert George Wells, an English writer who was prolific in many genres, writing more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories.