The Passionate Friends

H.G. Wells's novel of a love that outlasts marriage and convention, tracing the lifelong bond between two people whose feeling for each other refuses to fit the arrangements society allows them.

At a glance Wells, so often remembered for machines and Martians, was also a searching novelist of… What it's about The novel follows the enduring attachment between a man and a woman… Told with the reflective intimacy of a man reckoning with his own past, it traces how… Themes Wells is concerned with love against convention, with marriage and friendship and…

H.G. Wells, so often remembered for machines and Martians, was also a searching novelist of love and society, and here he examines a passion that will not be contained by the ordinary shapes of a life.