Herbert George Wells
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Herbert George Wells
born in Bromley, Kent, England, The United Kingdom September 21, 1866
died August 13, 1946
In 1866, (Herbert George) H.G. 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 Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with Margaret Sanger, and a ten-year relationship with the author Rebecca West, who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905), The Outline of History (1920), A Short History of the World (1922), The Shape of Things to Come (1933), and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932). One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917), it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism.
He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946.
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1) A Dream of Armageddon 0.06 Мб
2) A Máquina do Tempo 0.32 Мб
3) A Modern Utopia 0.55 Мб
4) A Moonlight Fable 0.01 Мб
5) A Short History of the World 13.5 Мб
6) An Englishman Looks at the World 0.58 Мб
7) Ann Veronica 0.57 Мб
8) Ann Veronica a Modern Love Story 0.57 Мб
9) First and Last Things 0.32 Мб
10) God the Invisible King 0.25 Мб
11) In the Days of the Comet 0.46 Мб
12) In the Fourth Year. Anticipations of a World Peace 0.2 Мб
13) La machine à explorer le temps 0.22 Мб
14) Little Wars 1.29 Мб
15) Mankind in the Making 0.6 Мб
16) Marriage 0.93 Мб
17) Marxism VS. Liberalism: An Interview 0.17 Мб
18) Mr. Britling Sees It Through 0.83 Мб
19) Russia in the Shadows 0.24 Мб
20) Secret Places of the Heart 0.37 Мб
21) Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) / And Two Other Reminiscences 0.19 Мб
22) Selected Stories of H. G. Wells 0.99 Мб
23) Soul of a Bishop 0.45 Мб
24) Tales of Space and Time 0.48 Мб
25) The Cone 0.02 Мб
26) The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 0.9 Мб
27) The Diamond Maker 0.02 Мб
28) The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 0.24 Мб
29) The First Men in the Moon 0.38 Мб
30) The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth 0.44 Мб
31) The Invisible Man 0.52 Мб
32) The Island of Doctor Moreau 0.24 Мб
33) The Lord of the Dynamos 0.02 Мб
34) The New Machiavelli 1.07 Мб
35) The New World Order 0.25 Мб
36) The Passionate Friends 0.66 Мб
37) The Red Room 0.02 Мб
38) The Research Magnificent 0.64 Мб
39) The Salvaging Of Civilisation 0.28 Мб
40) The Sea Lady 0.87 Мб
41) The Secret Places of the Heart 0.39 Мб
42) The Sleeper Awakes 0.44 Мб
43) The Star 0.03 Мб
44) The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents 0.24 Мб
45) The War in the Air 0.56 Мб
46) The War of the Worlds 0.33 Мб
47) The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll 0.32 Мб
48) The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman 0.77 Мб
49) The Wonderful Visit 0.26 Мб
50) The World Set Free 0.46 Мб
51) Time Machine 0.18 Мб
52) Tono Bungay 0.76 Мб
53) Twelve Stories and a Dream 0.4 Мб
54) When the Sleeper wakes 0.48 Мб
55) Сборник адаптированных рассказов английских и американских писателей. Часть 1 0.53 Мб
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