Wells was born in Bromely Kent, England on September 21, 1866. (Rollyson, 2071) His parents were Joseph and Sarah Wells. His father was a storekeeper and professional cricketeer while his mother was a housekeeper. They had trouble supporting the family. In 1880 Mrs. Wells took post as a housekeeper of Fetherstonhough in Up Park, Sussex. (Rollyson, 2071) This gave Wells a lower-middles class upbringing. His childhood would be reflected in his novels, in the sense of the class division.

Wells' parents found a job for him when he was fourteen. He was an apprentice for a draper in Windsor. (Rollyson, 2071) At the age of sixteen he received his break. He was offered a job as a student assistant at the Midhurst Grammar School in Sussex. (Draper, 298)

This opened the doors for his education. He obtained a scholarship from the Normal School of Science through

This novel also spawned many movies and book ideas. Works are created that mirror the book with only the place and time as a difference. This work was the end of Wells' science fiction phase. (Draper, 302)

Wells wrote an array of papers and novels. He wrote two textbooks in the 1893, this marked the beginning of his career. Throughout his life he published papers and essays in magazines. He wrote novels in many categories. Wells wrote realistic novels reflecting his upbringing and aspects of his life. He used a romance element in many of his works, which stemmed from his promiscuous behavior. Wells even wrote novels on his political views. Of all he wrote the science fiction novels get him the most credit. The rest of his works are rarely remembered.

The novel describes the adventures of Edward Pedrick, a former student of T. H. Huxley. A tropical storm finds him on an island owned by Moreau. Moreau is working on experiments to turn beasts into people by surgery. The doctor is misguided about natural evolution. His doctrines challenge the Christian version of creation. His beast people worship him as to preserve their human quality. Eventually Moreau is killed by the beast people. Pedrick escapes only to find that he can no longer distinguish between the human beings he finds and Moreau's travesties. This novel's idea has brought about genetic engineering and thing of that nature.

this position. He attended the school from 1884 to 1889. (Bliss, 432) He studied under Darwin's champion T. H. Huxley. (Draper, 298)

Wells even had a political side, technically he was a liberal democrat. (Bliss, 432) He thought himself to be closer to Plato's republic, though. In 1903 he joined the Fabien Society, a socialist group. (Magill Cyc, 1137) He even ran for office, but these attempts failed him.

Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pages 1055 to 1056.

"The influence of Well's science-fiction - virtually inescapable for writers who specialize in the genre - extends to such distinguished authors as Yeugeny Zamyatin, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, and William golding." (Draper, 296) The Time Machine is the first of Well's science-fiction novels, it was written in 1891. (Draper, 299) This book is the accounts of an inventor who traveled into the distant future. He found that nineteenth century progress is sending us toward an absence of challenge and initiative. This developed us into puny-unintelligent creatures called Eloi. They are the descendants of the ruling class of today. The descendants of the working class, the Morlocks, now fee

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