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War of the words: HG Wells coin also features false quote


Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 09.18 EST
It is a mystery that HG Wells’s characters would have been quick to leap on, but one that would doubtless have enraged the fastidious Wells himself: what is the origin of the quote chosen by the Royal Mint and attributed to him on the new Wells £2 coin?
Intended to mark 75 years since the death of the author, the coin has already been criticised for depicting the “monstrous tripod” featured in The War of the Worlds with a fourth leg, and for giving his Invisible Man a top hat, which the character never wore. Then the Wells expert Prof Simon James spotted the quote chosen for the edge of the coin: “Good books are warehouses of ideas.” James and his fellow academic Adam Roberts, a vice-president of the Wells Society, could source no such quote in Wells’s writing – although it is credited to him on various inspirational quote websites. ....

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Book World: How did all these books get into my house? There s a method to what seems like madness.
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2021
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Even though I gave away or sold perhaps 150 boxes of books in 2020, the stunned amazement of anyone who wanders into my basement or attic apparently remains, to quote Sherlock Holmes, the one fixed point in a changing age. Admittedly, only a small number of people crossed my threshold during this time of coronavirus restrictions, but most never even bothered to ask, Have you read all these books? They just stood dumbfounded, though a few were overheard to murmur, I feel sorry for his poor wife or, more rarely, There, but for the grace of God, go I. My living room, to my delight if no one else s, can now pass as the ramshackle library of an impoverished London club circa 1895. More and more often, I settle into a sha ....

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