Name: The Loyalty of Esau Common
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Author: H. G. Wells

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WELLS, H. G.

The Loyalty of Esau Common

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Esau Common has one obsession — the art and science of war — and one problem: in the class-bound army of the Aurelian Empire, a man of his birth will…

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Part of H. G. Wells: The Complete Works, which reads in order.

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H. G. Wells The Loyalty of Esau Common Overview This one isn’t finished, and it says so out loud — a headnote signed “H.G.W.” tells the reader up front that it was abandoned partway through, meant to open a series of army stories that never got written. What survives is a sharp, thinly veiled satire of the British class system as it operated inside the military, transplanted wholesale onto an invented empire called Aurelia, whose capital, army camps, and rival powers all map with almost no effort onto London, Aldershot,…

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Accession:FL-0412

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Language:en

Shelved under:Fiction, Politics

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