He later attended London University. After graduating in , Wells became a science teacher. His first book, the "Textbook of Biology," was published in Wells married his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells, in , but left her in for a former student, Amy Catherine Robbins. The couple married in Wells' first fiction novel, " The Time Machine ," was published the same year. The book brought Wells instant fame, inspiring him to embark on a serious career as a writer. Wells long- and short-form fiction falls into many genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, dystopian fiction, satire , and tragedy.
Wells penned plenty of non-fiction, including biographies, autobiographies , social commentaries, and textbooks as well as social commentary, history, biography, autobiography, and recreational war games. All four novels have been adapted for film, however, one of the most famous renditions of a Wells work was by Orson Welles, whose radio adaptation of " The War of the Worlds " was broadcast on October 30, The reports that many listeners, not realizing what they were hearing was a radio play rather than a news broadcast and were so terrorized at the prospect of an alien invasion that they fled their homes in fear has since been debunked.
However, the panic story was accepted for years and became one of the most enduring urban legends ever perpetrated in the name of a publicity campaign.
Wells died on August 13, , at the age of 79 of unspecified causes his death has been attributed to a heart attack or a liver tumor. Wells' ashes were scattered at sea in Southern England near a series of three chalk formations known as Old Harry Rocks. Wells liked to say that he wrote "scientific romances. Wells' influence on this genre is so significant that he, along with French author Jules Verne , share the title of "the father of science fiction.
Wells was among the first to write about such things as time machines and alien invasions. His most famous works have never been out of print, and their influence is still apparent in modern books, films, and television shows.
Wells also made a number of social and scientific predictions in his writing—including airplane and space travel , the atomic bomb , and even the automatic door—that have since come to pass. These prophetic imaginings are part of Wells' legacy and one of the things he is most famous for. Wells often commented on art, people, government, and social issues. Here are some characteristic examples:. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
Wells was born in Bromley, Kent County, England on September 21, to Sarah Neil who worked as a maid to the upper class and Joseph Wells, a professional cricket player and a shopkeeper.
They eventually separated but neither of them married again. Wells developed an interest in reading beginning in his childhood. He would devote a lot of his time to reading everything that came his way.
Wells now fourteen began working as an apprentice to a draper where he gained experience and inspirations later reflected in his works Kipps , a story about an orphan, Artie Kipps who makes his way to the upper class after gaining a large inheritance and education. In , Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London where he discovered his interest in science. Wells drew extensively on his experiences as a student for his novel Love and Mr.
Ill-fed, poor and increasingly discontented by both the quality of the teaching he received and the social organization of the world, Wells became more and more interested in politics and in imaginative literature, especially Plato, Blake and Carlyle. Wells failed his final exams and found work as a teacher in Wales. After being fouled in a rugby game, he suffered severe kidney damage, and for much of the s Wells feared he would die prematurely.
Returning to London and completing his degree, he worked as a correspondence tutor and in wrote his first books Honours Physiography and A Textbook of Biology. His writing branched out into literary journalism and popular scientific writing, and in alone Wells published four further books: Select Conversations with an Uncle, The Wonderful Visit, The Stolen Bacillus and other Incidents and his masterpiece The Time Machine.
None has ever been out of print since; Wells was swiftly hailed as a man of genius by his contemporaries.
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