![]() ![]() Through these Wells found he could escape the boredom and misery of his bed and convalescence by exploring the new worlds he encountered in these books.įrom these humble beginnings began a career that was, after several delays, to be seen as one of the most brilliant of modern English writers.Īble to write comfortably in a number of genres, he was especially applauded for his science fiction works such as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, but his forays into the social conditions of the times, with classics such as Kipps, were almost as commercially successful. ![]() The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained by the library of books his father regularly brought him. He was the youngest of four siblings, and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’. Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 in Bromley in Kent. ![]()
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