Wells / Welles

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Professor Hill,

The contemporary standard Russian transliteration of WElls's name is  
not "Gerbert Vell's" but Uells. (Ouells). See the article on him in  
Russian: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Герберт_Уэльс
Sytin published Wells's collected works in Russian in 1908-9. The  
Introduction was written by Kornei Chukovsky.
In the 1920s his name was spelt as Oul's (with one l and a soft sign).

All best,
Alexandra



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk




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