H.G. Wells - a short biography

Introduction to the book "The Time Machine" from the series of writings by Herbert George Wells, published by
Karmi Co. 1959

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H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

H.G. Wells was an author of novels and novellas, a historian, and above all—
Jose and the utopia man. was born
21.9.1866 in the city of Bromley, county of Kent (England), to his father Joseph Wells
– which was a professional cricket match. Scholarships and scholarships helped her, C.
Young Wells to attend the Royal College of Science in South Kensington
He finished it in 1888 with first grades above, with the BSC degree
Awarded to him by the University of London.
For several years he was engaged in science teaching as a school teacher and instructor
private, but in 1893 he turned to journalism, and years later published the
His first book "Selected conversations with my uncle", and started an unusual career
in her success in his short and wonderful novel "The Time Machine".

E, C,; Wells stood out from the group of young British writers of. years
The nineties in the 19th century, in the special line he chose for himself - a combination of ideas
scientific; social and historical in the guise of novels and action stories
short ones. The collection of stories from Peri-Eto, "The Stolen Germ" was published in
, 1896, followed one by one by The Island of Dr. Moreau, and "Wheel of Fortune",
Love and Mr. Lewisham, Kipps, and Mr. Foley's History. in 1897
Wells adds and creates "The Seer and the Unseen" and a collection of short stories,
One year later, we see the "War of the Absences": and "The Awakening of the Nerds",
In 1899, Wells publishes his "Stories of Space and Time", while in the book
The flights "estimate" Wells expresses his social views on what will happen
- in his opinion - in the class system of the human race.
More essays are published by Wells in a similar spirit in Schnitz 1903 and an oil that includes "Kur
The fusion of man." "The Men, the First on the Moon" is a novel that belongs
Chronologically for that period, while "The Mermaid" and "Trisch
Stories and One Dream" were published in 1904 together with "Food of the Gods" -
It is also a science fiction novel, while in 1905 Wells completes the
The social clues contained in the "Food of the Gods" in a new book: "Utopia
modern".
During this period the author toyed with the vision of a so-called samurai class. to rule
In the human race - as a kind of aristocrats in a hood. similarly
to the "noters" in "Plato's Republic,
In 1906, Wells continues the imaginative novels; "In the coming of the comet", and "Itida
of America", and takes his first steps in the field of politics, and subsequently
The books "The Agony of the Boot" (1907) and "Socialism
and the marriage- (1908), Wells complicates his socialist views in two
Additional works, also from 1908: "New worlds instead of the old ones",
and "first and last things".

You can add and list here a dozen more works that came one after the other
During his decades of literary activity, however, the most famous are his books
have been mentioned so far in the previous lines and it must be remembered that this literary activity of
Wells was not all equal in her opinion, although this fact does not weaken it
God forbid, his status in the literature of the twentieth century, because in his novels,
In novellas, essays and articles, George Herbert Wells was able to reflect more
From all the writers of our time the hopes and fears, opinions and ideals of the English
Pioneers of his generation. In one of his stories, Wells described a type of manager
school, and it seems that in a few lines he defined himself: "One of the things
The nicest thing about you is that you always treated us with human cheerfulness, forever
You would have run out of hands, I saw you give classes that are among the best in the world,
And your wife gives quite bad classes." That's the case
In "Lessons" created by the pen of Wells.
Wells' deep belief in the establishment of a world state &#;8211 to be established
A world without wars, passes as the second thread in all the truly great works
his, and is summed up in his assessment of the future in these words (his own:
"Being is engraved in me as an eternal dawn. Our lives flow, in my opinion, in expectancy
always".
It can be said that the essence of his scientific work was expressed in "Life Sciences". This is a book
Easy to read, accurate and comprehensive covering 500 pages and explained to the reader
Average the innovations of the science of biology, which he authored in collaboration with Julian
Huxley (grandson of the famous Thomas Huxley) and in collaboration with his own son J. P.
Wells.
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