The Rights Of Man

H. G. Wells wrote The Rights of Man in 1940, partly in response to the ongoing war with Germany. The fearlessly progressive ideas he set out were instrumental in the creation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the EU's European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's Human Rights Act. The Rights of Man is not an 'entirely new book' but it is a book of topical importance and it has been published, now as before, in as short a time as possible, in order to react to the sudden and urgent need.