Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under Thomas Henry Huxley at the Normal School of Science. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher.
Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. Hyde Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Little Women Wuthering Heights Peter Pan Persuasion Aesop’s Fables The Constitution of the United States and Selected Writings Crime and Punishment Dracula Great Expectations The Iliad Irish and Fairy Folk Tales The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The War of the Worlds The Time Machine and The Invisible Man and The Alchemist.Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Lovecraft The Federalist Papers The Inferno The Call of the Wild and White Fang Moby Dick The Odyssey Pride and Prejudice Grimm’s Fairy Tales Emma The Great Gatsby The Secret Garden Anne of Green Gables The Phantom of the Opera The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital The Republic Frankenstein Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Picture of Dorian Gray Meditations Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass A Tales of Two Cities Beowulf The Strange Case of Dr. Other titles in the series include: The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe The Essential Tales of H.P. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs.
Wells predicts the brutal savagery of twentieth-century warfare through the lens of interplanetary conflict.Įssential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. This late–nineteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written-a world with great fears for its security and long-term stability. Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this collectible hardcover edition of the thrilling science fiction classic.Ī classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth.
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