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Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells is the author of the science fiction novel, The Time Machine. “Herbert George Wells’ best known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels.” Herbert George Wells’ childhood, surroundings and life experiences had a great impact on the novel, The Time Machine.

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley on September 21st, 1866. “In his early childhood Wells developed love for literature.” His father was a shopkeeper and a professional cricketer until he broke his leg. When his father's business failed, Wells was apprenticed like his brothers to a draper. He spent the years between 1880 and 1883 in Windsor and Southsea, that is where Wells began to start writing short stories. Wells was in a high class society when he was a child but then moved lower and lower. “Wells had seen both sides of society and that is how he received the inspiration of The Time Machine.” The Time Machine shows a huge class distinction even 800 thousand years into the future. Wells disliked his work as a draper and in 1883 became a pupil-teacher at Midhur


st Grammar School. While at Midhurst Wells won a scholarship to the School of Science where he was taught biology by T. H. Huxley. Wells found Huxley an inspiring teacher and as a result developed a strong interest in evolution. Wells founded and edited the Science Schools Journal while at university. Wells was disappointing with the teaching he received in the second year and so in 1887 he left without obtaining a degree. He taught in private schools for the next four years, not taking his B.S. degree until 1890. Next year he settled in London, married his cousin Isabel and continued his career as a teacher in a correspondence college. From 1893 Wells became a full-time writer. Wells spent the next few years teaching and writing and in 1891 his major essay on science, The Rediscovery of the Unique, was published in The Fortnightly Review. In 1895 Wells established himself as a novelist in 1895 with his science fiction story, The Time Machine. Wells also became very popular in the United States. The popular magazine Cosmopolitan serialised two of his books, The War of the Worlds (1897) and First Man in the Moon (1900). His work also appeared in Collier's Magazine, the New Republic and the Saturday Evening Post. Wells also began writing non-fiction books about politics, technology and the future. This included Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901), The Discovery of the Future (1902) and Mankind in the Making (1903). These books impressed the three leaders of the Fabian Society, George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb. Wells accepted t

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