Herbert George Wells

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I studied there until 1880. In 1877 my father fractured his thigh; this accident put an end in his career as a cricketer, and his earnings as shopkeeper wasn’t enough to support that family. My family was financially unstable; therefore my brother and I were sent as apprentices in various occupations. I was a draper at the South Sea Drapery Emporium, Hyde’s (Biography of H.G. Wells, Online).
My experiences at Hyde’s were an inspiration for novels such as the wheels of chance, and kipps. My parents’ marriage was an unstable relationship due to my mother being a protestant and my father being a self-confessed freethinker. When my mother returned to work, she wasn’t allowed enough space for me, my brothers, and my father. Although my parents lived a separate life, they never got divorced. The issue between the parents affected my life in a very serious way; I failed to be a draper, later as a chemist’s assistant. After every failure I use to go to Uppark and wait for a fresh ...

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fiction novels. The book had been the Chronic Argonauts, a three part series he has written in 1888. The success of The Time Machine popularized the idea of sending my traveler on a voyage into the future, and landing him in the year 802701. The traveler discovers that humans have evolved into two distinct species, the brutal and animal-like Morlocks and the Eloi; this idea was influenced from Huxley, and Darwin (Biography of H.G. Wells, Online).
I want to make a book that would change the way we all think, I wanted to inspire something. I wanted to come up with an idea that no one has thought or worked on. This novel is unique in its own sense because it poses an idea of time ...

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