The Boston Globe, June 10th, 1994
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 Man" (1897) and "War of the Worlds" (1898) -- were popularized by radio and motion pictures. And Orson Welles made H. G. Wells more famous than ever with his historic Mercury Theater broadcast of "War of the Worlds," the Oct. 30, 1938, radio show that panicked a nation. Now the Learning Channel's "Great Books" series continuesthe trend (tomorrow at 10 p.m. on...
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