Next year he settled in London, married his cousin Isabel Milne, who did not consider Wells a great teacher: 'He was tooĬlever and too impatient.' Wells did not do his B.S. Taught in private schools for four years. However, his interest faltered and in 1887 he left without a degree. Obtained a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London and

In 1883 Wells became a teacher/pupil at Midhurst Grammar School. The upper-class society, which Wells describes with sharp social After learning that he has been left a fortune, Kipps enters Wells spent the years between 18 in Windsor and Southsea, and When his father'sīusiness failed, Wells was apprenticed like his brothers to a draper. Young Wells studied books in the library secretly. His mother servedįrom time to time as a housekeeper at the nearby estate of Uppark, and It has been said, that WellsĮarly childhood, Wells developed love for literature. The accident happened while he was helping a girlfriend climb over a Shopkeeper and a professional cricketer until he broke his thigh. Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent. His bitter side is seen early in the novel Boon (1915), which Later Wells's romantic and enthusiastic conception Was a pessimistic answer to scientific optimism, Wells's novels areĪmong the classics of science-fiction. With a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarmĪnd multiply in a drop of water.' (from War of the Worlds)Īlong with George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-FourĪnd Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which They were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man Mortal as his own that as men busied themselves about their affairs Keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as Years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels. The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Wells's best known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĮnglish novelist, journalist, sociologist,Īnd historian, whose science fiction stories haveīeen filmed many times.

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