H.G. Wells

The father of modern science fiction, Herbert George Wells, lives a life of poverty and wealth, writing stories (or Bildungsromans) like Tono-Bungay, and relates life questions and experiences to various themes and motifs throughout most of his works. Born into a working class family, Wells struggles to alleviate his family through difficult times after the collapse of his father’s business (“Herbert George Wells“, Twentieth- Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 19, 418). Wells’ first breakthrough came from a conjunction between himself and his mentor; T. H. Huxley based on the theory of evolution. As Wells’ developed as an esteemed writer, he published which is now regarded as one of his most insightful works, Tono-Bungay, a novel which served as a relation between his character and expository fiction (“Herbert George Wells“, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 6, 522). Throughout Wells’ substantial array of fiction and non-fiction works, the themes and ideas he ...