H. G. Wells
Born September 21, 1866 (Bromley, Kent, England)
Died August 13, 1946 (London, England)
British writer
British writer H. G. Wells made significant contributions to the literary genre of sc...
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Wells, H. G.
Herbert 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 ...
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Biography EssayH. 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...
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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 ...
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"The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made, There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystallin...
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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 ...
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Over a career that spanned five decades, H. G. Wells produced nearly a hundred full-length books, a large portion of them novels and collections of short fiction. In his 1934 autobiography Wells accur...
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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...
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Fantastic literature has existed as long as literature itself; Renaissance thinkers wrote of utopias and imaginary voyages into space; Jonathan Swift employed the fantastic in Gulliver's Travels (1726...
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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 stor...
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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.
“O...
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In the following essay, Wagar estimates the influence of the writings of H. G. Wells on two great scientists of the twentieth century.
One of the rarest birds in the lands of literature is the scie...
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The Life of a Artist
Herbert George Wells was born on September 21m 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a small town close to London. His father, Joseph Wells was a shopkeeper and his mother, Sarah Neal Wells, w...
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Oct 23 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 30 since 1900: 1918 - The Slovaks agreed to a union with the Czechs under
the name of Czechoslovakia. 1918 - T...
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UNCOMMON 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...
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When 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 wil...
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A "meteorite" has slammed into the ground near Georgia's Fort Yargo State Park.A public radio station in the nearby college town of Athens interrupts a variety show to report the freak event and an...
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Torment in the U.S.
and Frenzy in the U.K.), was destined
to become one of the dominant international auteurs of the second half of the
20th century, I would have said, “Huh?” And now, ...
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If anyone had ever told me back in 1944 that a 26-year-old Swedish screenwriter named Ingmar Bergman, who had just written his first screenplay (for Alf Sjoberg's Hets- Torment in the U.S. and Fren...
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For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristi...
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For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristi...
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To borrow a line from Yellow Submarine, in What Good Are the Arts? the English literary critic John Carey disappears up his own existence: His brilliant, provocative, wrongheaded book ends up erasi...
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To borrow a line from Yellow Submarine, in What Good Are the Arts? the English literary critic John Carey disappears up his own existence: His brilliant, provocative, wrongheaded book ends up eras...
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