Floor Games; a companion volume to Little Wars Author
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H.G. Wells was an English author best known as a sci-fi writer, though he was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, and even writing text books and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction", and his best known works are The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and The War of the Worlds.

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Floor Games is a book published in 1911 by H. G. Wells. This light-hearted volume argues in a humorously dictatorial tone that The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, it briefly describes a number of games that can be played on well lit and airy floors with four main groups of toys: soldiers about two inches high (Wells regrets the curse of militarism that makes civilians hard to find), largish wooden bricks, boards and planks, and electric railway rolling stock and rails. Various remarks show that the book is based on Wells's experience of playing such games with his two sons, George Philip Gip Wells (1901-1985) and Frank Richard Wells (1903-1982), identified here only by their initials.Although Floor Games is often characterized as a companion book to Wells's Little Wars (1913), the earlier book was conceived of as a self-standing volume so that the author might later write a book devoted purely to war games. Floor Games describes mostly pacific games for young children, whereas Little Wars describes war games for older children and adults.Wells describes how the boards and planks can be used to set up various imaginative geographies to play the game of wonderful islands in which the floor is the sea, create the setting for twin cities (to allow his two sons a measure of independence in their creations), or undertake engineering projects (he describes the building of funiculars in some detail).During World War II, the toy soldiers that inspired Floor Games and Little Wars were confiscated by the police from Wells's son (by Rebecca West) Anthony West, on account of his pacifism.Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

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Floor Games; a companion volume to Little Wars.Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games.

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Floor-Games~~H-G-Wells, Floor Games: a companion volume to "Little Wars", Paperback.

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