{"product_id":"young-h-g-wells-signed-edition","title":"The Young H.G. Wells - Signed Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 04 November 2021\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow did the first forty years of H. G. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWells' life shape the father of science fiction?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, and love affair with socialism, the first forty years of H. G. Wells' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world's most influential writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe sudden success of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMachine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe War of The Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 498g \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 162 x 242 x 29 (mm) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781472629999\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claire Tomalin","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43740211347706,"sku":"9781472629999","price":16.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/9781472629999.jpg?v=1640253059","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/young-h-g-wells-signed-edition","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}