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I write to cover a frame of ideas.

—Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (7577)

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H.G. Wells

(Herbert George Wells), 1866–1946, English author. Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker, working assiduously to remove all vestiges of Victorian social, moral, and religious attitudes from 20th-century life.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.

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NONFICTION: A Short History of the World. 1922.
Wells’s tribute to “the needs of the busy general reader who wishes to refresh and repair his faded or fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind.”
FICTION: The Invisible Man. 1897.
Wells’s thrilling masterpiece of the mad scientist.; The Island of Doctor Moreau. 1896.
The scientist playing god seems more relevant than ever in the age of cloning.; The Time Machine. 1898.
The classic time-traveling yarn: what seems too good to be true invariably is.; The War of the Worlds. 1898.
The original invasion from Mars, made all-too-real by Orson Welles in his 1938 radio adaptation.
QUOTATIONS: Wells, H.G., 63682 to 63707
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.

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