The Young H. G. Wells - Changing the World by Claire Tomalin

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Tomalin's The Young H.g. Wells is hard to beat, being friendly, astute and a pleasure to read. - Michael Dirda, Washington Post "Claire Tomalin's short, engaging biography The Young H.g. Wells is a welcome addition to the conversation. Her book makes a strong case for Wells's enduring importance." - Heller McAlpin, The Wall Street Journal from acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells. How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction. From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family and determination to educate himself at any cost to his complicated marriages, love affair with socialism, and the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, H. G. Wells's extraordinary early life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. 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.

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