Claire Tomalin: The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World [2022] paperback Condition:New He talks about his teenage

He talks about his teenage insecurities

he had a sword

Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth

who meets an enchanted frog

Claire Tomalin: The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World [2022] paperback Condition:New He talks about his teenageA fascinating journey into the life of H. G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From 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.