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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers.
How did the first 40 years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?
From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his 20s and 30s, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first 40 years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers. The sudden success of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others and predicted men walking on the moon 70 years before it happened.
In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.
Critic Reviews
"The finest of biographers." (Hilary Mantel)
"A most intelligent and sympathetic biographer." (Daily Telegraph)
"One of the best biographers of her generation." (Guardian)