A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.
H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. After an education
repeatedly interrupted by his family's financial problems, he
eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools,
where he began to write his first stories.
Wells became a prolific writer with a diverse output, of which the
famous works are his science fiction novels. These are some of the
earliest and most influential examples of the genre, and include
classics such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Most
of his books very well-received, and had a huge influence on many
younger writers, including George Orwell and Isaac Asimov. Wells
also wrote many popular non-fiction books, and used his writing to
support the wide range of political and social causes in which he
had an interest, although these became increasingly eccentric
towards the end of his life.
Twice-married, Wells had many affairs, including a ten-year liaison
with Rebecca West that produced a son. He died in London in 1946.
A lurid Darwinian nightmare...pushes unnervingly at the boundaries
of what it is to be human and still reads as freshly as when it was
first published.
*Evening Standard*
The Island of Doctor Moreau is one of those books that, once read,
is rarely forgotten
*Margaret Atwood*
A dark and sinister fable about science versus nature. Beware the
House of Pain!
*The Times*
A grisly Darwinian heart-of-darkness fantasy
*Daily Telegraph*
A master writer
*Guardian*
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