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H.G. Wells, in full Herbert George Wells, (born September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England—died August 13, 1946, London), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly.
Wells was the son of domestic servants turned small shopkeepers. He grew up under the continual threat of poverty, and at age 14, after a very inadequate education supplemented by his inexhaustible love of reading, he was apprenticed to a draper in Windsor. His employer soon dismissed him; and he became assistant to a chemist, then to another draper, and finally, in 1883, an usher at Midhurst Grammar School. At 18 he won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School (later the Royal College) of Science, in South Kensington, London, where T.H. Huxley was one of his teachers. He graduated from London University in 1888, becoming a science teacher and undergoing a period of ill health and financial worries, the latter aggravated by his marriage, in 1891, to his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells. The marriage was not a success, and in 1894 Wells ran off with Amy Catherine Robbins (died 1927), a former pupil, who in 1895 became his second wife.
In spite of an awareness of possible world catastrophe that underlay much of his earlier work and flared up again in old age, Wells in his lifetime was regarded as the chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I. No other writer has caught so vividly the energy of this period, its adventurousness, its feeling of release from the conventions of Victorian thought and propriety. Wells’s influence was enormous, both on his own generation and on that which immediately followed it. None of his contemporaries did more to encourage revolt against Christian tenets and accepted codes of behaviour, especially as regards sex, in which, both in his books and in his personal life, he was a persistent advocate of an almost complete freedom. Though in many ways hasty, ill-tempered, and contradictory, Wells was undeviating and fearless in his efforts for social equality, world peace, and what he considered to be the future good of humanity.
As a creative writer his reputation rests on the early science fiction books and on the comic novels. In his science fiction, he took the ideas and fears that haunted the mind of his age and gave them symbolic expression as brilliantly conceived fantasy made credible by the quiet realism of its setting. In the comic novels, though his psychology lacks subtlety and the construction of his plots is often awkward, he shows a fund of humour and a deep sympathy for ordinary people. Wells’s prose style is always careless and lacks grace, yet he has his own gift of phrase and a true ear for vernacular speech, especially that of the lower middle class of London and southeastern England. His best work has a vigour, vitality, and exuberance unsurpassed, in its way, by that of any other British writer of the early 20th century.
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H.G. Wells - The First Men In The Moon (read by Jonathan Keeble)
H.G. Wells - The Dream (red by Edoardo Ballerini)
H.G. Wells - The Passionate Friends (read by Peter Eastman)
H.G. Wells - When The Sleeper Wakes (read by Frederick Davidson)
H.G. Wells - Ann Veronica (read by Liz Pearce)
H.G. Wells - Tono-Bungay (read by Greg Wagland)
H.G. Wells - Men Like Gods (read by Stefan Rudnicki)
H.G. Wells - The History Of Mr. Polly (read by Paul Shelley)
H.G. Wells - The Outline Of History (read by Bernard Mayes)
H.G. Wells - The Wonderful Visit (read by Mary Bard)
H.G. Wells - Stories Of The Unusual (read by Ralph Cosham)
H.G. Wells - In The Days Of The Comet (read by Walter Covell)
H.G. Wells - Tales Of Space And Time (read by Stephen Ward)
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (read by Scott Brick)
H.G. Wells - The War Of The Worlds (read by Simon Vance)
H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man (read by Scott Brick)
H.G. Wells - The Island Of Doctor Moreau (read by Jonathan Keeble)
H.G. Wells - Kipps (read by Sam Kelly)
H.G. Wells - War And The Future (read by Shelly Frasier)
H.G. Wells - The World Set Free (read by Shelly Frasier)
H.G. Wells - The New Accelerator: Top Stories (read by Paul Spera)
H.G. Wells - The Valley Of Spiders: Top Stories (read by Paul Spera)
H.G. Wells - Short Stories Volume One (read by Tim Bruce, Helen Lloyd, Nigel Patterson, Malk Williams, Greg Wagland, Liam Gerrard, James A. Gillies)
H.G. Wells - Short Stories Volume Two (read by Tim Bruce, Helen Lloyd, Nigel Patterson, Malk Williams, Greg Wagland, Liam Gerrard, James A. Gillies)
H.G. Wells - Short Stories Volume Three (read by Tim Bruce, Helen Lloyd, Nigel Patterson, Malk Williams, Greg Wagland, Liam Gerrard, James A. Gillies)
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https://rapidgator.net/file/a5e731dc98291dbd5a8749ca792dcb77/The_Dream.rar.html
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https://rapidgator.net/file/ec3c6e72f48a9cbf37154d59f49ed718/Men_Like_Gods.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/2a3a6eb1cd9fc716658dde3e9946509c/The_History_Of_Mr_Polly.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/f9982def359aa51bf888859131f3ec01/The_Outline_Of_History.part1.rar.html
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https://rapidgator.net/file/cdd0dea575ffd050fb2b849cee27fa0b/Stories_Of_The_Unusual.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/6ec82706163ef992f8dfa32825162e74/In_The_Days_Of_The_Comet.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/ed47957c56933e526a2f93c38e892743/Tales_Of_Space_And_Time.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/b7e25ddac33e4a3ccf5ff052d3d50fd8/The_Time_Machine.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/ccd3ff5bd106d210893b556f66d8c971/The_War_Of_The_Worlds.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/e6cafb864615b5aaaea95118110a88a1/The_Invisible_Man.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/33cca5adef632a1393e03d2beb0c4bc9/The_Island_Of_Doctor_Moreau.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/f27715bde26d47a7ac0ae852f9321a02/Kipps.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/87ee0a6c4e91df386dc0d143b1e60abc/War_And_The_Future.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/e7c6418af043fe10b9b8c10be9ee05a0/The_World_Set_Free.rar.html
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https://rapidgator.net/file/c49d265114c4b2712b5f302c32115267/The_Valley_Of_Spiders_Top_Stories.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/f2d32663d85f8adf17f698d98dbf2bd8/Short_Stories_Volume_One.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/25aeabdbcc977cb8e1dcfe55642dc65c/Short_Stories_Volume_Two.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/560869148dc8650dfc00c11db27c9b6b/Short_Stories_Volume_Three.rar.html |
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