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| Name: |
Herbert George Wells | | Birth Date: |
September 21, 1866 | | Death Date: |
August 13, 1946 | | Place of Birth: |
Bromley, Kent, England | | Place of Death: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Herbert George Wells
630 words, approx. 2 pages
 The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. On Sept. 21, 1866, H. G.... summary from source:
 Biography of H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
11,784 words, approx. 39 pages
 Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and most popular writers of short fiction of his era and of the twentieth century. Some of his longer fictions, such as The Time Machine: An Invention (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), have... summary from source:
Biography of Herbert George Wells
10,156 words, approx. 34 pages
H. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with the realistic to produce challenging alien perspectives. The...
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 H. G. Wells Quotes
4,242 words, approx. 14 pages
Herbert George Wells ( 1866-09-21 – 1946-08-13 ) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds , The Invisible Man , and The Time Machine ; also for Kipps , The History of Mr. Polly and other social...
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 Wells, H.G.
1,478 words, approx. 5 pages(born , Sept. 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1946, London) English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as... summary from source:
 Wells, H. G. Summary
1,053 words, approx. 4 pagesHerbert George Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom, on September 21, to servants turned shopkeepers. After a poor education in local private schools he was apprenticed to the drapery trade at age fourteen. After a spell... summary from source:
Wells, H(Erbert) G(Eorge)
183 words, approx. 1 pages(born Sept. 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1946, London) English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. While studying science under T.H. Huxley in London, Wells formulated a romantic conception of the subject that would... summary from source:
 H. G. Wells Information
5,597 words, approx. 19 pages
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and...
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 Utopian Studies The Critical Response to H.G. Wells.
01/01/1997: 994 words, approx. 3 pages William J. Scheick, ed. Westport: Greenwood P, 1995. 194 pp. $55-00. Works that bring together a disparate collection of writings (twenty-six here) are inevitably difficult to pass judgment upon. Often, some pieces will be good, others bad, and still others neither markedly... summary from source:
The Boston Globe A provocative portrait of H.G. Wells
06/10/1994: 395 words, approx. 1 pages By the time Herbert George Wells died -- at the age of 79, on Aug. 13, 1946 -- he had published more volumes than William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens combined. The most famous of his novels -- "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Roiphe Escapes From Herself, Delves Into Edwardian Marriages
6/26/2007: 772 words, approx. 3 pagesUNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY CIRCLES, 1910–1939By Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $26, 344 pages Within a certain social circle—O.K., mine—mention of the name Katie Roiphe inspires exasperated eye rolls, forehead slaps, even hisses. Ms. Roiphe is the author,... summary from source:
AP News Spacecraft to carry library to Mars
8/3/2007: 731 words, approx. 2 pagesWhen NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan.The "Visions of Mars" mini-disk secured to the lander will be the first library on Mars _ a gift from past and...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Laura Scuriatti
6,038 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Scuriatti discusses the success of the collaboration of Wells and photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn on the 1911 edition of The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories.
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Critical Essay by Laurence Price
4,068 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Price compares Wells's “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” and Arthur Conan Doyle's “The American's Tale” and dubs these stories “precursors of the deadly plant themes that have fed many of our twentieth century fears and phobias.”
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W. Warren Wagar
3,625 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Wagar estimates the influence of the writings of H. G. Wells on two great scientists of the twentieth century.
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