Book of the week: The Young H.G. Wells by Claire Tomalin

Tomalin’s ‘compulsively readable’ book shows how Wells became the ‘great prophet of the modern age’

H.G. Wells in 1939
H.G. Wells in 1939
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“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 “men on the Moon, environmental disaster, class war” and racial oppression – as well as “Martians invading the Earth”.

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