Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known ...

Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the ...

STAR-BEGOTTEN—H. G. Wells—Viking ($1.75). Every man, it is said, has one good book in him. But many a professional writer distributes his first-rate potentialities over a series of second-rate books.

This outlook had no abler, nor more prominent, exponent than H.G. Wells, whose curiosity, unpretentious background, training as a science teacher, and rapid literary production made him famous in the ...

“Nobody predicted the 21st century better than H.G. Wells,” said Kathryn Hughes in the Daily Mail. Born “when Queen Victoria was still youngish”, he wrote a series of bestselling page-turners about ...

Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century. By Sarah Cole. Columbia University Press; 392 pages; $35 and £27. IN AN EPISODE of “Downton Abbey”, Maggie Smith’s character, Violet Crawley, ...

H.G. Wells. The Time Machine: An Invention. Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview, 2001. 294 pp. $7.95 pbk. H.G. Wells. The War of the Worlds. Ed. Leon ...