... 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 ... of his main critics was his old adversary at the Fabian Society, George Bernard Shaw. Wells was appalled by the outbreak of the Second World War and wrote extensively about the need to make sure that we u...

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... influential and entertaining writers of his time period. He aided in making the Science Fiction genre respectable. Bradbury has also mastered many other fields. He has written fantasies, crime and mystery stories, supernatural tales, mainstream literature, and of course science fiction. He has been classified as an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet. He achieved such success through ... also attributed for his satires. One of his most famous ones is "Fahrenheit 451." The book is a satire of a totalitarian state. In this state, firemen and ...

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