The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Tomalin, Claire
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Tomalin, Claire

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World

Tomalin's The Young H.G. Wells is hard to beat, being friendly, astute and a pleasure to read."...
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Author: Claire Tomalin
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The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Tomalin, Claire

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World

CHF 43.72
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Tomalin, Claire

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World

CHF 43.72
Author: Claire Tomalin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Tomalin's The Young H.G. Wells is hard to beat, being friendly, astute and a pleasure to read." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post

"Claire Tomalin's short, engaging biography The Young H.G. Wells is a welcome addition to the conversation. . . Her book makes a strong case for Wells's enduring importance."--Heller McAlpin, The Wall Street Journal

From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells

How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction?

From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family and determination to educate himself at any cost to his complicated marriages, love affair with socialism, and the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, H. G. Wells's extraordinary early 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 seventy 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.

Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 11/02/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.22w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781984879028


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2021 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 09/13/2021
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 8

About the Author
Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Charles Dickens: A Life and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and a memoir A Life of My Own. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread First Book Prize. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.

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