The Young H.G. Wells
Changing the World
$25.18
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
21 February 2023
Summary
How did the first forty 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 twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241974858 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241974852 |
| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 21 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 203g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
You put down Tomalin’s book knowing you have met a living author * The Times *
Richly informative… Tomalin admits that, although she set out to write about the young Wells, she has followed him into his forties because she found him ‘too interesting to leave’. The same can be said of her book * Sunday Times *
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is one of Britain’s greatest living biographers. Her biographies include:
- Jane Austen: A Life
- The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens’ relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards.
- Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002.
In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.
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