{"product_id":"the-young-h-g-wells-9780241974858","title":"The Young H.G. Wells","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain''s best biographers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did the first forty years of H. G. Wells'' life shape the father of science fiction?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. G. Wells'' extraordinary life would set him on a path to become one of the world''s most influential writers. The sudden success of \u003ci\u003eThe Time\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMachine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe War of The Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e transformed his life and catapulted him to international fame; he became the writer who most inspired Orwell and countless others, and predicted men walking on the moon seventy years before it happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou put down Tomalin's book knowing you have met a living author * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eRichly informative... Tomalin admits that, although she set out to write about the young Wells, she has followed him into his forties because she found him 'too interesting to leave'. The same can be said of her book * Sunday Times *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733416259927,"sku":"9780241974858","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241974858.jpg?v=1720000018","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-young-h-g-wells-9780241974858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}