H.G. Wells


Born
in Bromley, Kent, England, The United Kingdom
September 21, 1866

Died
August 13, 1946

Genre

Influences


Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including The Time Machine (1895), The Isl ...more

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“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
H.G. Wells

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
H.G. Wells

Polls

October 2024 Revisit the Shelf Poll

 
  55 votes, 22.4%

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930) 288 pages
 
  44 votes, 18.0%

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895) 119 pages
 
  35 votes, 14.3%

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958) 209 pages
 
  33 votes, 13.5%

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1920) 293 pages
 
  32 votes, 13.1%

King Lear by William Shakespeare (1605) 335 pages
 
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