A fascinating journey into the life of H.
G.
The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of The Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened.
In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today..
Wells\' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world\'s most influential writers.
G.
Wells\' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H.
G.
Wells, from one of Britain\'s best biographersHow did the first forty years of H.
A fascinating journey into the life of H.
G
