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The time machine and the invisible man5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. His other "scientific romances"- The Island of Dr. ![]() In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher’s salary. He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. 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. His father was a professional cricketer and sometime shopkeeper, his mother a former lady’s maid. ![]() Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, England, on September 21, 1866. ![]()
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