H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866, the son of a small shopkeeper, and served an apprenticeship as a draper before a scholarship enabled him, in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Huxley, a training that left its mark on his imagination. He first wrote novels of anticipation, then realist and social novels, a history of the world and political essays, and towards the end of his life defended a declaration of the rights of man. He died in London in 1946.

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• NovelThe War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · 1898LiteraturePublic domain