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See also:HERBERT See also:GEORGE See also:WELLS (1866— ) , See also:English novelist was See also:born at See also:Bromley, See also:Kent, on the 21st of See also:September 1866, the son of See also:Joseph See also:Wells, a professional cricketer . He was educated at See also:Midhurst See also:grammar school and at the Royal See also:College of See also:Science, where he was trained in physics, See also:chemistry, See also:astronomy, See also:geology and See also:biology . He graduated B.Sc. of See also:London University in 1888 with first-class honours, taught science in a private school, and subsequently did private coaching . In 1893 he began to write for the See also:Pall Mall See also:Gazette, of which he was dramatic critic in 1895 . He also wrote for Nature and the Saturday See also:Review . After the A.-WELLS success of his fantastic See also:story The See also:Time See also:Machine (1895) he gave his time chiefly to the See also:writing of romances, in which the newest scientific and technical discoveries were used to advance his views on politics and See also:sociology . But he did not confine himself to fiction . His Anticipations (1902) showed his real See also:gift for sociological See also:speculation . Beginning with a See also:chapter on the means of locomotion in the 20th See also:century, it went on to discuss See also:war, the conflict of See also:languages, faith, morals, the elimination of the unfit, and other See also:general topics, with remarkable acuteness and constructive ability . In The See also:Discovery of the Future (1902), Mankind in the Making (1903), A See also:Modern See also:Utopia (1905) and New Worlds for Old (1908) his socialistic theories were further See also:developed . As a novelist, meanwhile, he had taken a very high See also:place . Some earlier stories, such as The Wheels of See also:Chance (1896) and Love and Mr See also:Lewisham (1900), had proved his See also:talent for See also:drawing See also:character, and pure phantasies like The War of the Worlds (1898) his abundant invention; but Kipps (1905) and Tono-See also:Bungay (1909) showed a See also:great advance in See also:artistic See also:power . The See also:list of his See also:works of fiction includes The Stolen Bacillus and other Stories (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895), The See also:Island of See also:Doctor See also:Moreau (1896), The See also:Plattner Story and Others (1897), When the See also:Sleeper Wakes (1899), The First Men in the See also:Moon (1901), The See also:Food of the Gods (1904), In the Days of the See also:Comet (1906), The War in the See also:Air (1908), See also:Anne See also:Veronica (1909), The See also:History of Mr Polly (1910) . |
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