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H.G. Wells

Born

in Bromley, Kent, England

September 21, 1866

Died

August 13, 1946

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, History

Influences

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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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H.G. Wells’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 1,269,753 ratings · 52,258 reviews · 4,263 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Time Machine 3.90 avg rating — 493,965 ratings — published 1895 — 8386 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 296,347 ratings — published 1897 — 2911 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invisible Man 3.64 avg rating — 182,182 ratings — published 1897 — 5747 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, Alan Lightman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.73 avg rating — 114,238 ratings — published 1896 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Machine / The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, Alfred Mac Adam (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 55,820 ratings — published 1968 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells, China Miéville (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), John Banks (Narrator), Steven McLean, Alun Hood (Illustrator), Patrick Parrinder (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 15,449 ratings — published 1901 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds 4.12 avg rating — 7,909 ratings — published 1961 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country of the Blind 3.87 avg rating — 6,268 ratings — published 1904 — 462 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Sleeper Wakes 3.38 avg rating — 4,739 ratings — published 1899 — 2512 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Food of the Gods 3.43 avg rating — 4,641 ratings — published 1904 — 1620 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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February 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, 160 pages

24 votes, 15.8%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages

24 votes, 15.8%

1516, Utopia by Thomas More, 135 pages

18 votes, 11.8%

1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, 108 pages

17 votes, 11.2%

1603, Othello by William Shakespeare, 314 pages

15 votes, 9.9%

1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages

15 votes, 9.9%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

11 votes, 7.2%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages

8 votes, 5.3%

1678, The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, 324 pages

7 votes, 4.6%

1764, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages

4 votes, 2.6%

1853, Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 432 pages

4 votes, 2.6%

1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, 224 pages

2 votes, 1.3%

1788, Emmeline by Charlotte Turner Smith, 520 pages

2 votes, 1.3%

1832, Indiana by George Sand, 278 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

152 total votes

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