The Young H.G. Wells

Changing the World

The Young H.G. Wells
Claire Tomalin
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Hardback
h240 x 156mm - 304pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
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9780241239971
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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 biographersHow did the first forty years of H. G Wells' life shape a fantastic writer into a visionary? Claire Tomalin' s remarkable and empathetic biography, focusing on HG Wells' early life, offers a new understanding of one of Britain' s most influential writers. 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, and the sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds which transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame - Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man, a misfit, a socialist, a futurist and a writer whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.
A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer. . . she writes well and wittily * Daily Telegraph * One of the best biographers of her generation * Guardian * Tomalin knows how to tell a cracking story * Daily Mail * Tomalin is the nimblest of narrators * Time Out *
Claire Tomalin is the author of seven highly acclaimed biographies, including her most recent autobiography ' A Life of My Own' , which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her previous book on Dickens, The Invisible Woman, an account of his relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, won three major literary prizes. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241239971
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Viking
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 700g
Pages: 304

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