HERBERT GEORGE WELLS
English author (1866-1946)
Biography:
Herbert George Wells, like Charles Dickens, was born in a modest bakground. As a self-taught student he attended the Sciences Faculty at University of London, where he met T. Huxley, Darwin's friend. After teaching and collaborating in some magazines, Wells began publishing his science-fiction books.
His first writings are scientific interviews to amuse his students. In 1895, he published a short tale: The Time Machine, followed by a series of novels and short stories inspired in Jules Verne, but rather more scientific than his.
The War of the Worlds (1898), The Invisible Man (1897) and The first Men in the Moon (1901) are premonitory views of a total world war and the conquest of the Space to reach hegemony. His works deal with the essential problems of men and women at the end of the 19th century.
Wells was considered a true prophet by his contemporaries, although they forgot to critisize his mistaken judgements. Wells is, nonetheless, one of the greatest English writers.
The Adventures of the Invisible Man, 1897, adapted in several films and TV series, were really worshipped.
The First World War shook Well's faith on man's perfection and his writings showed the confusion of his mind and soul.