{"product_id":"the-last-books-of-h-g-wells-the-happy-turning-mind-at-the-end-of-its-tether","title":"The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning \u0026 Mind at the End of Its Tether","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with \"human insufficiency.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMind at the End of its Tether\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Koestler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something no one could agree with, but something that couldn't be taken lightly.\"--Art Beck \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In the face of our universal inadequacy . . . man must go steeply up or down and the odds seem to be all in favor of his going down and out. If he goes up, then so great is the adaptation demanded of him that he must cease to be a man. Ordinary man is at the end of his tether.\"--HG Wells \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Happy Turning\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWells' barbed fantasies about the afterlife take the forms of \"happy\" dream walks. In one he converses with Jesus: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut being crucified upon the irreparable things that one has done, realizing that one has failed, that you have let yourself down and your poor silly disciples down and mankind down, that the God in you has deserted you--that was the ultimate torment. Even on the cross I remember shouting out something about it.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Eli. Eli, lama sabachthani?\" I said.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDid someone get that down?\" he replied.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Don't you read the Gospels?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGood God, No \" he said. \"How can I? I was crucified before all that.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4219759\"\u003eHg Wells\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3705397\"\u003eRudy Rucker\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-5107808\"\u003eColin Wilson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monkfish Book Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780976684312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0976684314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC028000\"\u003eScience Fiction | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe father of science fiction. British author of THE OUTSIDER and many other books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monkfish Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42660131897581,"sku":"9780976684312","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_ea35b121-2f98-45bd-8f68-d91f6d5f8a2d.jpg?v=1649348490","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-last-books-of-h-g-wells-the-happy-turning-mind-at-the-end-of-its-tether","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}