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HG Wells
Herbert George Wells English author and political philosopher, most
famous for his science-fantasy novels with their prophetic depictions of
the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare.
Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, and educated at the
Normal School of Science in London, to which he won a scholarship. He
worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until
1895, when he became a full- time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship
with Rebecca West produced a son, Anthony West, in 1914. In the next 50
years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time Machine mingled
science, adventure, and political comment. Later works in this genre are
The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The Shape of Things to Come;
each of these fantasies was made into a motion picture. Wells also wrote
novels devoted to character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The
History of Mr. Polly, which depict members of the lower middle class and
their aspirations. Both recall the world of Wells's youth; the first tells
the story of a struggling teacher, the second portrays a draper's
assistant. Many of Wells's other books can be categorized as thesis novels.
Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay,
attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through,
depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I
Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History.
Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote
voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was
a member of the Fabian Society. He envisioned a utopia in which the vast
and frightening material forces available to modern men and women would be
rationally controlled for progress and for the equal good of all. His
later works were increasingly pessimistic. '42 to '44 castigated most
world leaders of the period; Mind at the End of Its Tether expressed the
author's doubts about the ability of humankind to survive. He also wrote
An Experiment in Autobiography. Wells died August 13, 1946, in London.
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Ida B. Wells
was a woman dedicated to a cause, a cause to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from being murdered by lynching. Ly
The Time Machine
The story begins with an assembly of men in their usual discussion group; the group consists of an assortment of differe
Wells Social Imagination
All novels are influenced by the social and cultural background of their authors, and clearly 'The Time Machine' is no e
The Time Machine By HG Wells
Two more books by H.G. Wells are: "The War OF THE WORLDS" "THE INVISIBLE MAN" The major characters were the following: T
The Time Machine
By H.G. Wells The Time Traveller had built a time machine that would allow him to journey through time. He traveled into
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