Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education.
"When one believes that all the tigers in the jungle are dead, it is quite amusing to walk along the jungle paths in a dressing-gown with a fan instead of a gun": First Edition of H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education.
WELLS, H.G.
$25.00
Item Number: 145204
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918.
First American edition of this satirical portrait of late-Victorian England, the education system on the eve of the First World War, and the effects of that war on English society. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good condition.
H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer, producing works of social commentary, politics, history, and science fiction at a rapid pace. Questions of man's relationship with religion and education against a backdrop of love and tragedy make for a recognizably Wellsian story in 'Joan and Peter.'
