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Mr. Wells Outpours
October 5, 1918 issue

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This article presents information about the book "Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education," by H.G. Wells. This is not a story, but a further outpouring of the most restless and garrulous intelligence of modern times. Life is one long, vast, youthful adventure, and the only thing that really matters is that one shall not permit it to become ordered, and cut-and-dried, and dully intelligible. War tempts imaginative, restless people, and a stagnant peace bores them. This story of an education, therefore, begins naturally with a dark picture of the late-Victorian system of the nineties complacently breeding its race of flanneled fools to deal with the intricate problems of a vast empire.

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JOAN & Peter: The Story of an Education (Book); WELLS, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946; BOOKS; EDUCATION; INTELLECT; FICTION
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