With this invention, he finds himself, finally, a vehicle within which he can explore time – a concept that has always fascinated him. The story of The Time Machine hits top gear with a breakthrough that enables the time traveller to build a time machine. A champion of social and political ideas, he also ran for Parliament as a Labour Party candidate between 1922 and 192 The visionary author, sociologist, journalist, and historian breathed his last on 13 August 1946, aged 79.‘The Time Machine’ is a science fiction thriller which details the life and story of a brilliant scientist and craftsman whose love for scientific adventure led him to a breakthrough that empowered him to travel far into the future and see humanity at its most trying moments, and beyond, and then back in time to tell his experience to his friends.

Published in 1920, The Outline of History is regarded as Wells' best-selling work. Wells' successive books, often termed as 'scientific romances' included The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898) Wells' works reflected the need for a society that flourished on the ideas and principles of global socialism. The story of an English scientist developing a time travel machine earned him the title of Father of Futurism. In 1895, following the publication of The Time Machine, Wells became an overnight sensation. All through, Wells nursed the secret desire to become a writer someday. Later, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science (later, the Royal College) where he learned about astronomy, biology, chemistry, and physics, among other subjects.

As a teenager, Wells worked as a draper's assistant but eventually quit. Later, when his mother returned to working as a maidservant in a country house in Sussex, Wells found himself in the owner's magnificent library, immersed in the works of stalwarts like Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Sir Thomas More, Plato, Daniel Defoe and others. His father would bring him books from the local library and Wells would spend hours devouring the written word. It was during this time that an avid reader was born. In 1874, Wells, the son of domestic helpers-turned-shopkeepers, had an accident that left him bedridden for months.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS was born on 21 September 1866, in Bromley, England.

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