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Conceived as a comprehensive history of the whole world The Outline of History (1920) proved Wells’s single most successful book; this chapter discusses its composition and arguments.
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Roberts, A. (2019). World-Historical. In: H G Wells. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26421-5_20
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