h.g wells
...s cousin Isabel and continued his career as a teacher in a smaller college there. From 1893 and on, Wells became a full-time writer. After a few years, Wells left Isabel for one of his brightest students, Amy Catherine, whom he married in 1895. As a novelist Wells made his name famous with The Time Machine (1895). But, as few people know, it was originally published in 1894 as a short story under the name The Time Traveler. It was released to the public in book form in the following month and sold over six thousand copies in its first month. Wells biggest influences at the time for writing this and many other of his stories was the booming of population and the industrialization of the world around him. In his concern for society Wells joined the socialist Fabian Society in London, but he soon quarreled with the society's leaders. This experience was basis for his novel The New Machiavelli (1911), where he drew portraits of the noted Fabians. After WW I Wells published several non-fiction works, among them The Outline of History (1920), The Science of Life (1929-39) and Experiment in Autobiography (1934). In 1917 Wells was a member of Research Committee for the League of Nations and published several books about the world organization. Between the years 1924 and 1933 Wells lived mainly in France. From 1934 to 1946 he was the International president of PEN. Wells writing reflected his obsession of the technological world he had been brought up in. He felt it had a very negative influence of the morals of mankind. Everyone in this “new” world was out for themselves and didn’t have any concern for anyone less than them. He had disputes with having a class system, class inequality, and the relationship between science and society. It seemed that before, science had always been separate from th...