The narrator of one of this author's novels attempts to save his family's financial empire by stealing heaps of radioactive quap from Mordet Island. In that novel, a chemist's rising social status is marked by his purchases of Lady Grove and Crest Hill after he becomes rich selling a product marketed as "the spirit of vigor." This author plagiarized much of his most successful work of non-fiction from Florence Deeks. He was enormously popular in the 1910s thanks to novels such as Ann Veronica and Mr. Britling Sees It Th
The narrator of one of this author's novels attempts to save his family's financial empire by stealing heaps of radioactive quap from Mordet Island. In that novel, a chemist's rising social status is marked by his purchases of Lady Grove and Crest Hill after he becomes rich selling a product marketed as "the spirit of vigor." This author plagiarized much of his most successful work of non-fiction from Florence Deeks. He was enormously popular in the 1910s thanks to novels such as Ann Veronica and Mr. Britling Sees It Through, and achieved his highest critical success with a novel about George and Teddy Ponderevo. This author advocated a single world government in his novels The World Set Free and The Shape of Things to Come, and attempted to describe "the whole story of man" in The Outline of History. For 10 points, name this British author of Tono-Bungay who pioneered science fiction in his books The Island of Dr. Moreau and The War of the Worlds.
The narrator of one of this author's novels attempts to save his family's financial empire by stealing heaps of radioactive quap from Mordet Island.
Herbert George Wells