H. G. Wells' time travel classic
Herbert George Wells, the son of a shopkeeper and a lady's maid, was born in Kent in 1866. A bookish child, his education was interrupted when he served a brief and gruelling apprenticeship to a draper. But Wells then went on to study biology under the great T. H. Huxley, before finding instant literary success in 1895 with the publication of his first 'scientific romance', The Time Machine. This was followed in quick succession by The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. A visionary and lifelong socialist, Wells also wrote extensively on social issues, history and science. He died in 1946.
The Time Machine ... that little masterpiece
*J. B. Priestley*
He succeeds in placing before the reader a vision of the world in
cosmic time
*Norman Nicholson*
I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to
be] H.G. Wells
*Upton Sinclair*
His scientific romances are still unsurpassed
*Walter Allen*
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