"In Shadow Lovers, Andrea Lynn has created a study of the very personal side of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers. This self-proclaimed "Don Juan of the Intelligentsia" was said to have "radiated" energy - intellectual, emotional, physical, and sexual, and his assorted charms made him fabulously successful with women.

Drawing on papers recently made public by the Wells estate, Lynn traces Wells's relationship with each of these three femmes fatales and sheds light on the many secrets of all of their lives. Along the way she paints a vivid portrait of the early part of the last century in London, Moscow, Paris, Peking, and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.