Claire Tomalin: The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World [2022] paperback Condition:New he had a sword

he had a sword

who meets an enchanted frog

sharing in-jokes

how she tested herself (with hot water) to increase her pain threshold

Claire Tomalin: The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World [2022] paperback Condition:New he had a swordA 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.