Sterling Children's Books, 2003-08-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0.9000 in x 6.6000 in x 4.2000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

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Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. Although "Bertie" left school at fourteen to become a draper’s apprentice (a life he detested), he later won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied with the famous Thomas Henry Huxley. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. His other "scientific romances"— The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The War in the Air (1908)—won him distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase "the war that will end war" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling Outline of History (1920) and his later utopian works. Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: "Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me."

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Bookseller: Once Upon a Time Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0000672167
Title: The Time Machine and the Invisible Man
Author: Wells, H. G
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1593080328
ISBN 13: 9781593080327
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2003-08-01
Size: 0.9000 in x 6.6000 in x 4.2000 i
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
X weight: 0.5000 lb

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