Books; H.G. Wells wanted to change the world – a new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions Sat., Nov. 6, 2021 “The Young H.G. Wells” by Claire Tomalin (Penguin Press) ...

STAR-BEGOTTEN—H. G. Wells—Viking ($1.75). Every man, it is said, has one good book in him. But many a professional writer distributes his first-rate potentialities over a series of ...

Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say ...

Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Charles Johnson THE YOUNG H. G. WELLS Changing the World By Claire Tomalin Toward the end of ...

Strand reveals that Ice-9 was actually Langmuir’s idea, and that he once met H.G. Wells and suggested that Wells write a novel about it. Wells never wrote that novel, but Vonnegut did.

SEVEN FAMOUS NOVELS—H. G. Wells— Knopf ($2.75). Twenty-five years ago Herbert George Wells was a youngster of 42. His name stood for exuberant modernity, trailblazing science and a freely ...

Born on September 21, 1866 in Kent, England, author Herbert George Wells is best known for his genre-defining sci-fi novels—so much so that he’s often referred to as the “Father of Science ...

It is impossible to put together an exhaustive list of all the books burnt by the Nazis between 1933 (when burnings started in earnest) and 1945, but estimates put it at well over 4,000.

The strangest part of this story may be that in the middle of World War II, 74-year-old British author H.G. Wells took a train to Texas to speak to a meeting of the United States Brewers Assn. I ...