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H G Wells
Title: H G Wells
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 370 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
H G Wells
H G Wells
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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 …showed first 85 words of 370 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 370 total…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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