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'The Island of Doctor Moreau takes us into an abyss of human nature. This book is a superb piece of storytelling' V. S. Pritchett '[Wells' work is] astonishingly rich in human and historical interest ... he foresaw the invention of, among other things, television, tanks, aerial warfare and the atom bomb' David Lodge 'I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells' Upton Sinclair 'The father of science fiction' Guardian

`The Island of Doctor Moreau takes us into an abyss of human nature. This book is a superb piece of storytelling' V. S. Pritchett `[Wells' work is] astonishingly rich in human and historical interest ... he foresaw the invention of, among other things, television, tanks, aerial warfare and the atom bomb' David Lodge `I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells' Upton Sinclair `The father of science fiction' Guardian

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Herbert George Wells's (1866-1946) career as an author was fostered by a childhood mishap. He broke his leg and spent his convalescence reading every book he could find. Wells earned a scholarship at the Norman School of Science in London. Wells's ""science fiction"" (although he never called it such) was influenced by his interest in biology. H. G. Wells gained fame with his first novel, The Time Machine (1895). He followed this with The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War Of The Worlds (1898).

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