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The Young H.G Wells
Claire Tomalin
How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?
From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened.
In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.
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Our Curators said...
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Incisive portrait of the man who predicted that man would walk on the moon, 70 years before it happened. Wells survived an impoverished working-class childhood to become a visionary writer, driven by an insatiable curiosity and sense of social injustice.
Richard E. Grant
- Richard E. Grant
What the Critics are Saying
You put down Tomalin's book knowing you have met a living author
The Times
Richly informative... Tomalin admits that, although she set out to write about the young Wells, she has followed him into his forties because she found him 'too interesting to leave'. The same can be said of her book
The Sunday Times
The Young H.G Wells
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