Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent on September 21, 1866. His father Joseph Wells was a professional cricket player until a leg injury altered his career thus making him an unsuccessful shopkeeper. His mother Sarah Neal Wells was a housekeeper and a maidservant. When Herbert was a child he accidentally broke his hip, this greatly limited his sporting activities so soon afterwards Herbert developed a love for literature.

Wells was married several times by his own account. Wells fell in love with his cousin Isabel Mary Wells around 1886, and in 1891 the two were married. Two years later Herbert abandoned Isabel and eloped with one of his brightest students Amy Catherine. “With the outbreak of war in 1914, Wells was involved in a love affair with a young journalist named Rebecca West” (H.G.

Herbert produced an extraordinary amount of short stories and novels, too many to name within this paper. But his most recognized works include: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The First Man on the Moon. Herbert’s tiles such as The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds have all found themselves in front of a movie audience, Hollywood producers who looked up to Wells have turned his stories into big budget films that all of us can appreciate. Following World War I, Wells turned to the writing of history. Achieving a much debated but worldwide reputation with his Outline of History in 1920.

Although he was classified normally as a socialist, having joined the Fabian Society in 1903, Wells political views came to be more like Plato’s republic than a Socialist or Communist state (Magill 1874). Herbert was convinced that Western socialist cannot compromise with communism, and that the best hope for the future lay within Washington (H.G. WWW). Coming down to earth in his next period Wells wrote such realistic novels as Kipps (1905), Tono-Bungay, The History of Mr. Polly, and The New Machiavell. Most of these novels are concerned with improving living conditions and the attitudes towards life.

Herbert has received a lot of acclaim throughout the years; they include praise as an English novelist and as a journalist. He is also known for his science fiction, his satirical novels, and his popular accounts of history and science (Benet 1104). About three years before his death, he was awarded the Doctor of science degree from London University. There was a lot of mixed emotion around his writings. Herbert sometimes had readers that liked his books and told everybody about them, someti

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