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Essay Archive - HG Wells
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....
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