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Love and Mr. Lewisham

H. G. Wells

An eighteen-year-old teacher falls in love with a young woman, loses his position, and later reunites with her in London while studying science.

"Love and Mr. Lewisham" by H. G. Wells is a novel. An eighteen-year-old teacher falls in love with a young woman, loses his position, and later reunites with her in London while studying science.

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The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love—indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third—and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called “Mr.” to distinguish him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as “Sir.”

He wore ready-made clothes, his black jacket of rigid line was dusted about the front and sleeves with scholastic chalk, and his face was downy and his moustache incipient. He was a passable-looking youngster of eighteen, fair-haired, indifferently barbered, and with a quite unnecessary pair of glasses on his fairly prominent nose—he wore these to make himself look older, that discipline might be maintained. At the particular moment when this story begins he was in his bedroom. An attic it was, with lead-framed dormer windows, a slanting ceiling and a bulging wall, covered, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old-fashioned paper.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. — Introduces Mr. Lewisham.
  2. 02Chapter II. — “as the Wind Blows.”
  3. 03Chapter III. — the Wonderful Discovery.
  4. 04Chapter IV. — Raised Eyebrows.
  5. 05Chapter V. — Hesitations.
  6. 06Chapter VI. — the Scandalous Ramble.
  7. 07Chapter VII. — the Reckoning.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. — the Career Prevails.
  9. 09Chapter IX. — Alice Heydinger.
  10. 10Chapter X. — in the Gallery of Old Iron.
  11. 11Chapter XI. — Manifestations.
  12. 12Chapter XII. — Lewisham Is Unaccountable.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. — Lewisham Insists.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. — Mr. Lagune’s Point of View.
  15. 15Chapter XV. — Love in the Streets.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. — Miss Heydinger’s Private Thoughts.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. — in the Raphael Gallery.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. — the Friends of Progress Meet.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. — Lewisham’s Solution.
  20. 20Chapter XX. — the Career Is Suspended.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. — Home!
  22. 22Chapter XXII. — Epithalamy.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. — Mr. Chaffery at Home.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. — the Campaign Opens.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. — the First Battle.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. — the Glamour Fades.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. — Concerning a Quarrel.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. — the Coming of the Roses.
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. — Thorns and Rose Petals.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. — a Withdrawal.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. — in Battersea Park.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. — the Crowning Victory.

About this edition

Author
H. G. Wells
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
183 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers