The young H.G. Wells : changing the world
Tomalin, Claire2021
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A fascinating journey into the early life of H.G. Wells, the father of science fiction, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. 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' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The TimeMachine 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.
Main title:
The young H.G. Wells : changing the world / Claire Tomalin.
Author:
Tomalin, Claire, author
Imprint:
[London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021.©2021
Collation:
x, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780241239971 (hbk)9780241239971
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
494527
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 823.912 WEL | Available |