An Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)

Informationen zum Autor Born Herbert George Wells in Kent in 1866, H. G. Wells was an outspoken socialist and pacifist, whose works caused some controversy. He is more widely known as a science fiction writer for the novels that he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine , The Island of Doctor Moreau , The Invisible Man , The War of the Worlds , When the Sleeper Wakes and The First Men in the Moon . All, except for When the Sleeper Wakes , have been made into films. Along with Jules Verne, H. G. Wells is also known as 'the Father of Science Fiction'. His later novels were more realistic and he wrote many genres, including contemporary novels, history and social commentary. H. G. Wells died in 1946. Klappentext Suitable as an accompaniment to "H G Wells in Love"! which Wells drafted as Postscript to an "Experiment in Autobiography"! this title relates his early life! student days! struggles to make a living! ascent to literary supremacy! and later career as prophet of socialism. It follows him from the beginnings of his thoughts to his conclusion. Zusammenfassung Wells's An Experiment in Autobiography, subtitled, with typically Wellsian self-effacement, 'Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)', first appeared in 1934, when Wells was sixty-eight years old, and is presented in Faber Finds in two volumes (also in the Faber Finds imprint is H.

Product details

• Authors: H. G. Wells, H.G. Wells, Wells h g
• Assisted by: Well H G (Editor), Wells H G (Editor), H. G. Wells (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780571247301
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24730-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Faber Finds; Self discovery; Socialism