Wells later identified his reading as a turning point in his life. What he did find useful, he said, was the opportunity to read voraciously at this time, particularly science books.
Wells later commented that he found religion of little use during a period of painful convalescence after breaking his leg in 1874. While the young Wells inherited his mother's capacity for hard work, he did not share her religious nature. When he was injured in Wells's childhood, Wells's mother became the primary breadwinner, working as a housekeeper. The family's lower-middle-class status was not helped by the fact that Wells's father preferred playing cricket to working as a shopkeeper. He was also a vocal advocate of socialism and wrote a large volume of political philosophy and history in addition to his “science romances.” Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĪn Early Love of Science Born in Bromley, Kent, on September 21, 1866, Wells was the third son of Joseph Wells, a shopkeeper, and Sarah Wells. Herbert George Wells is best remembered today as an author of several enduring science fiction classics, among them The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. The Shape of Things to Come (1933) Overview
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