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. W...
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 formed...
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 influen...
The History of Mr Polly ITV1 ITV1 finally finds a home for this gentle, slow but well-acted drama that was originally scheduled to be broadcast over Christmas. Based on the book by HG Wells, Adrian Hodges' story stars Lee Evans (right) as...
Hours and hours of gently soporific clacking against a background of vibrant green, The History of Mr Polly was ITV1's attempt to show that it doesn't need snooker to get viewers dozing in their armchairs at the end of a bank holiday weekend. It...
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