The young H.G. Wells : changing the world
Tomalin, Claire2022
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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' extraordinary 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 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.
Main title:
The young H.G. Wells : changing the world / Claire Tomalin.
Author:
Tomalin, Claire, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2022.
Collation:
x, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Viking, 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241974858 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
Subject:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Childhood and youthWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Political and social viewsAuthors, English -- 19th century -- BiographyAuthors, English -- 20th century -- BiographyBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: literaryLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
BRN:
1022704
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