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HG Wells - College Essay

HG Wells

Herbert George Wells English author and political philosopher, most
famous for his science-fantasy novels with their prophetic depictions of
the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare.
Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, and educated at the
Normal School of Science in London, to which he won a scholarship. He
worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until
1895, when he became a full- time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship
with Rebecca West produced a son, Anthony West, in 1914. In the next 50
years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time Machine mingled
science, adventure, and political comment. Later ...

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categorized as thesis novels.
Among these are Ann Veronica, promoting women's rights; Tono-Bungay,
attacking irresponsible capitalists; and Mr. Britling Sees It Through,
depicting the average Englishman's reaction to war. After World War I
Wells wrote an immensely popular historical work, The Outline of History.
Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote
voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was
a member of the Fabian Society. He envisioned a utopia in which the vast
and frightening material forces available to modern men and women would be
rationally controlled for progress and for the equal good of all. His
later works were increasingly pessimistic. '42 to '44 castigated most
world leaders of the period; Mind at the End of Its Tether expressed the
author's doubts about the ability of humankind to survive. He also wrote
An Experiment in Autobiography. Wells died August 13, 1946, in London.

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