The History Of Mr Polly: With an introduction by Giles Foden

A disturbing comic masterpiece . . . a more gently satirical and masculine counterpart to Flaubert's Madame Bovary . . . a classic of radical existentialism, and, after 100 years, still amusing, unsettling and powerfully contemporary - Washington PostA delightful comedy of everyday Edwardian England that draws inspiration from its author's own life . . . The story - still strikingly modern - is a comedy about a midlife crisis . . . a comedy of ordinary, provincial life, rooted in the everyday, with countless brilliantly observed details - GUARDIANWidely considered to be Wells's most perfectly-formed novel [a] comic idyll - GUARDIAN