The Holy Terror
by H. G. Wells
Presenting himself as a biography of Rudolph "Red" Whitlow, who was born with an aggressive temperament that is unlikely to be born, but his one-month-old nurse exclaims: "This is holy terror!" Kaba Whitlow remains the founder of the First World Power, a long time in the Wellsian dream. The events take place in a recognizable recent British past, but Wells is quoted as saying, "Every person, place, and thing in this story — even the countries where it happens — is fictional ... The England in this book is not America, London, the England, America and London of geography and journalism, but England, America and London that have been transformed into a metaphorical narrative."
