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  Index to Titles. Bartleby.com
Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the 17th c., compiled by Herbert J.C. Grierson.
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A Treasury of War Poetry, by George Herbert Clarke, ed.
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  H. G. Wells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herbert George Wells ( September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.
Herbert George was the fourth and last son born at 58 The High Street, Bromley to Joseph Wells, a former domestic gardener and at the time shopkeeper and professional cricketer and his wife Sarah Neal, a former domestic servant and occasional housekeeper.
Herbert George studied in his new school until 1887 with an allowance of 21 shillings a week thanks to his scholarship.
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 Herbert George Wells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Herbert George Wells ( September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.
Herbert George was the fourth and last son born at 47 The High Street, Bromley, Kent to Joseph Wells, a former domestic gardener and at the time shopkeeper and professional cricketer and his wife Glorria Swenson a former domestic servant and occasional housekeeper.
A defining incident of young Herbert George's life is said to be an accident he had in 1874 at the age of eight years old.
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 Herbert George Wells - Wikipedia
Wells eine Stellung als Wirtschafterin bei ihrem früheren Brotherrn in Uppark, Sussex, angeboten, die sie annahm.
Herbert George trat als Lehrling in eine Tuchhandlung in Windsor ein.
Wells Jahre mit Huxley formten in ihm die Ideen, die er später in seinen Büchern vertrat, nämlich dass das Christentum Unfug und der Mensch ein weiterentwickelter Affe sei und dass der Evolutionsprozess tendenziell unmoralisch und stets eher zur eigenen Zerstörung, denn zum Fortschritt führen könne.
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 H.G. Wells And His Works
Herbert George was born on the 21st of September in 1866 to Joseph Wells and Sarah Neal.
As the Wells family was going through hard times, each of the sons had to find means to help support themselves and took on apprenticeship opportunities to learn a skill and earn money.
Herbert was starting to play around with the ideals of Socialism and Communism as well as toying with the idea that of whether man is made by nurture or nature.
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 H. G. Wells - Literature Vault - Classic Authors and Literature Online!
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.
Herbert George was the fourth and last son born at 47 The High Street, Bromley, Kent to Joseph Wells, a former domestic gardener and at the time shopkeeper and professional cricketer and his wife Sarah Neal, a former domestic servant and occasional housekeeper.
Herbert George studied in his new school until 1887 with an allowance of 21 shillings a week thanks to his scholarship.
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 Herbert George Wells
It was the Normal School that Wells came under the wing of the famous biologist Thomas H. Huxley.
Wells‘ „science fiction“ was clearly influenced by his studies at the Normal School and his interest in biology.
Over the years Wells became concerbed with the fate of human society in a world where technology and scientific study were advancing at a rapid pace.
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Verne's stories, written for adolescents as well as adults, caught the enterprising spirit of the 19th century, its uncritical fascination about scientific progress and inventions.
Herbert George Wells, the son of an unsuccessful tradesman, was born in Bromley on 21st September, 1866.
After a basic education at a local school, Wells was apprenticed as a draper.
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 Simply Audiobooks - Herbert George Wells Bio
Wells was disappointing with the teaching he received in the second year and so in 1887 he left without obtaining a degree.
Wells, who was extremely critical of the role that privilege and hereditary factors in capitalist society and in his utopia, people gain power as a result of their intelligence and training.
Wells was now considered to be one of the world's most important political thinkers and during the 1920s and 30s he was in great demand as a contributor to newspapers and journals.
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 HERBERT GEORGE WELLS, 1866-1946: The Time Machine - The War Of The Worlds
Herbert George Wells was the son of a shopkeeper and first worked as a draper's asistant.
Wells lived through World War II in his house on Regent's Park, refusing to let the blitz drive him out of London.
Welles, who first considered the show silly, was shaken by the panic he had unleashed and promised that he would never do anything like it again.
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 Herbert George Wells - Wikipedia NL
Herbert George Wells ( 21 september 1866 - 13 augustus 1946) was een Brits schrijver die vooral bekend is door zijn sciencefictionverhalen zoals The Invisible Man and The Time Machine.
Wells was van bescheiden afkomst: zijn vader was een professioneel cricketspeler, zijn moeder een huishoudster.
Hij was altijd al geïnteresseerd in wetenschappen, maar faalde in zijn studies, en ook met een leercontract liep het fout.
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 Herbert George Wells   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells, was a novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, who wrote over a hundred books.
Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866.
Wells studied biology at the Normal School of Science in London, and later taught in several private schools.
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 epilog Person - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) Britischer Schriftsteller
Wells kehrte zu seiner eigenen Lehrtätigkeit zurück, machte seinen Abschluss nebenher und schrieb zwei Textbücher, während er gleichzeitig für das Fernkolleg der Hochschule arbeitete.
Wells' frühe Geschichten kreisten um Begegnungen zwischen Menschen und seltsamen Lebensformen, wie in »The Stolen Bacillus«, »In the Avu Observatory«, »The Flowering of the Strange Orchid« und »Aepyornis Island« (alle 1894).
Durch die Verlegung der geschilderten Welt in die Zukunft musste Wells keine auf Inseln oder in fernen Ländern abgeschottete Gesellschaft erschaffen, um seine Geschichte zu erzählen, sondern konnte eine direkte Linie von den Ereignissen seiner Zeit bis zu ihren Folgen in der Zukunft ziehen.
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 H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells, the son of an unsuccessful tradesman, was born in Bromley on 21st September, 1866.
Wells resigned from the Fabian Society in 1908 but continued to be active in the campaign for socialism.
Wells was appalled by the outbreak of the Second World War and wrote extensively about the need to make sure that we used the conflict to establish a new, rational world order.
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 HERBERT GEORGE WELLS. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to EZ Term Papers
Wells was born in Bombay, Kent in 1866.(Geocities.com).
Wells was a suspense grabber and he knew how to grab the reader and make the reader feel as if he or she was seeing the real thing as they read.
Well's was a great writer because of how he did his work he didn't just go right into the suspense he just tip toed you into the excitement of the story which made it so great for his writing to be put together.
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 Biography - H.G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.
Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.
In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work she had submitted to Macmillan & Sons, his North American publisher, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.
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 George Wells Beadle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
George Wells Beadle Guide to the collection of papers held at the California Institute of Technology.
Herbert George Wells (britischer Schriftsteller, 1866-1946) Ausführliche Biographie des Schöpfers der "Zeitmaschine".
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) Biography and a list of selected works.
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 Herbert George Wells   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Herbert George Wells, like Charles Dickens, was born in a modest bakground.
Wells was considered a true prophet by his contemporaries, although they forgot to critisize his mistaken judgements.
Wells is, nonetheless, one of the greatest English writers.
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 Herbert George Wells
Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels.” Herbert George Wells’ childhood, surroundings and life experiences had a great impact on the novel, The Time Machine.
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley on September 21st, 1866.
Wells was in a high class society when he was a child but then moved lower and lower.
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 The H.G. Wells Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Here is a list of H.G. Wells works currently in print (updated through February 2005), an important note on Wells and Copyright, and a full bibliography.
The first, under the title, "H.G. Wells under Revision", was held in 1986 to mark the 40th anniversary of Wells's death; the second, " The Time Machine : Past, Present and Future" was held in 1995 to mark the centenary of the publication of Wells's first scientific romance.
The society is sponsoring an H.G. Wells essay competition, intended to provide interested post-graduate students and general enthusiasts an opportunity to publish their work on Wells in our annual journal The Wellsian.
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 Herbert George Wells
Wells' frühe Romane ("Die Zeitmaschine" "Der "Der Krieg der Welten") die er "Scientific nannte entwarfen eine Reihe heute klassisch genannter der Science Fiction.
Wells' Ziel war es die Gesellschaft verbessern und brachte seine Vorstellungen in einer utopischer Romane ("In the Days of the Comet" Shape of Things to Come") zum Ausdruck.
Wells betrachtete sich als Sozialisten und stand der Russischen Revolution und Marxistischen Programm Lenins positiv gegenüber (" Russia in the Shadows ").
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 Well's Biography
Sometimes called the father of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent, England.
His father, a professional cricket player and shopkeeper, and his mother, a former lady's maid, raised Wells with the idea that he would find a place in the work world that they were accustomed.
He's the "time machine guy" or the "martian guy." Wells, however, wrote short stories, mainstream fiction and non-fiction essays his entire life, most of them espousing in some form or another his views on humanity, society and the direction he saw the world going.
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 Herbert George Wells essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener.
Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fiction’s fondest dreams and worst fears.
Wells had a quick mind and a good memory that enabled him to pass subjects by examination and win a scholarship to the Normal School of Science, where he stayed for three years and, most importantly, was exposed to biology under the famous Thomas H. Huxley.
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 Deyteros.gr - Herbert George Wells - Biography, bibliography
Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent, England.
As a novelist Wells made his debut with The Time Machine, a parody of English class division and a satirical warning that human progress is not inevitable.
At the outbreak of war in 1914, Wells was involved in a love affair with the young English author Rebecca West, which influenced his work and life deeply.
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 Herbert George Wells
Wells was born in Kent from a modest family.
Wells had been always sensitive about class prejudices, which is reflecting in his works through the Eloi and the Morlocks.
Wells had a liaison with Rebecca West, out of which Anthony West born in August 1914.
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 H. G. Wells
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