Historic Author H. G. Wells SIGNED Book: Experiment In Autobiography, 1st Edition
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For sale, an exceedingly desirable hardcover autographed copy of H.G. Wells', Experiment in Autobiography, 1934 Macmillan 1st edition 2nd printing, with the rare original dust jacket! This book is beautifully signed in fountain pen with an elegant flourish and the scarce dust jacket is protected by an (included) archival book cover. Some separating of boards to spine, darkening on inside of front and back boards from aged binding glue, sun fading on spine of delicate dust jacket.... A scarce autographed book!
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H. G. WellsPhotograph by George Charles Beresford, 1920BornHerbert George Wells
21 September 1866
Bromley, Kent, EnglandDied13 August 1946 (aged 79)
Regent's Park, London, EnglandOccupationNovelist, teacher, historian, journalistAlma materRoyal College of Science (Imperial College London)GenreScience fiction (notably social science fiction), social realismSubjectWorld history, progressNotable worksThe Outline of HistoryFiction:The Time MachineThe Invisible ManThe War of the WorldsThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe First Men in the MoonThe Shape of Things to ComeWhen the Sleeper WakesYears active1895–1946SpouseIsabel Mary Wells
(1891–1894, divorced)
Amy Catherine Robbins (1895–1927, her death)ChildrenGeorge Phillip "G. P." Wells (1901–1985)
Frank Richard Wells (1903–1982)
Anna-Jane Kennard (1909–2010[1][2])
Anthony West (1914–1987)RelativesJoseph Wells (father)
Sarah Neal (mother)Herbert George Wells[3][4] (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.[5][6][a]During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.[7] His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction”.[8] His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.[9]Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context.[10] He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist.[11] Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, [12] but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.
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H. G. WellsPhotograph by George Charles Beresford, 1920BornHerbert George Wells
21 September 1866
Bromley, Kent, EnglandDied13 August 1946 (aged 79)
Regent's Park, London, EnglandOccupationNovelist, teacher, historian, journalistAlma materRoyal College of Science (Imperial College London)GenreScience fiction (notably social science fiction), social realismSubjectWorld history, progressNotable worksThe Outline of HistoryFiction:The Time MachineThe Invisible ManThe War of the WorldsThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe First Men in the MoonThe Shape of Things to ComeWhen the Sleeper WakesYears active1895–1946SpouseIsabel Mary Wells
(1891–1894, divorced)
Amy Catherine Robbins (1895–1927, her death)ChildrenGeorge Phillip "G. P." Wells (1901–1985)
Frank Richard Wells (1903–1982)
Anna-Jane Kennard (1909–2010[1][2])
Anthony West (1914–1987)RelativesJoseph Wells (father)
Sarah Neal (mother)Herbert George Wells[3][4] (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.[5][6][a]During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.[7] His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction”.[8] His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.[9]Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context.[10] He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist.[11] Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, [12] but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.
