Wells’ first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations (1901), His early novels, called “scientific romances”, invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds and the First men in the Moon, all of them been made into films. He studied a log and later entered a Grammar School at West Sussex, making his way into the Debating Society of school and then to teaching and a literary career. Fortunately, it had a huge library where he could find refuge.

To earn a living, he was sent to various jobs as apprentice but failed each time to return Uppark where his mother worked as housemaid. Wels was born in a lower middle class impoverished family on, in High Street, Bromley of Kent country of South-East England to Joseph Wells and Sara Neal. A prolific writer, he churned out fiction as well as nonfiction work in his writing career spanning about 60 years and is also remembered as Father of Science Fiction. Herbert George Wells is famous not only as one of the first science fiction writers of early 20 th century but also an active political thinker of his times. The village of Iping is finally relieved of the mysterious crimes happening around the Inn His assistant Thomas Marvel finds the formula but cannot read and understand it as it is inscribed in half Russian and half Greek. Hall’s Inn.ĭesperately he commits various crimes and is finally hunted to death by police. His resources are finished when he moves to the village of Iping and lodges himself in Mrs. He carries out experiments and succeeds but upon learning that he cannot achieve complete invisibility as a number of other factors remain beyond his control, he becomes mentally unstable.

Griffin, an intelligent medical student puts forth a theory that if the refractive index of a person is matched to that of the air, he will not reflect or absorb light and will becomes invisible. The moral of the story can be seen as a modern version of Ring of Gyges – a story devised by Plato in his Republik Book II. The Invisible Man is moral thriller with a high element of suspense and drama wrapped up as science fiction. Wisemen Publication’s – Wisemen World Classics is an attempt to befriend your growing child with Great Masters of world literature, retelling their content in contemporary prose with vivid illustrations, while retaining the music of the original work. But the children, when they are just brushing their linguistic teeth might find Elizabethan English a little harder to chew and might choose to stay away. Timelessness of such works make them even more relevant for younger minds that are in their formative years. Literary Classics are indispensable masterpieces, which help us understand our world irrespective of changing times.

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