The Young H G Wells: Changing the World
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The young H G Wells established his career as a novelist with his extraordinary scientific romance The Time Machine.
The book, first published in 1895, was conceived when he was a student. The sales were sensational: this unknown young writer had found a wonderful concept with which to dazzle his public.
‘I doubt if anyone forgets their first reading of The Time Machine,’ says Tomalin.
Indeed, the freshness, daring and complete originality
