Herbert Wells Biography

Born on September 21 in Bromli, Great Britain - died on August 13 in London, Great Britain.

English writer and publicist. The author of famous science fiction novels “Time Machine”, “Invisible Man”, “War of Worlds” and others. Representative of critical realism. A supporter of Fabian socialism. He visited Russia three times, where he met with Lenin and Stalin. His father, Joseph Wells Joseph Wells, and his mother, Sarah Nil Sarah Neal, worked in the last gardener and maid in a rich estate, and later became the owners of a small porcelain shop.

However, trade almost did not bring income, and basically the family lived with the money that the father, being a professional player in cricket, earned a game. When the boy was eight years old, he was “lucky”, as he himself expressed, to break his leg. It was then that he was addicted to reading. However, when Herbert was thirteen years old, his father broke his thigh, and the cricket was over.

The training was considered completed, and Herbert had to begin an independent life. He received education at the Kings College of London University, which he graduated from the year. By the year, he received two scientists titles in biology, from the year a doctor of biology. After the apprenticeship with the merchant, the manufactory and the work in the pharmacy visited the school at the school, the teacher of exact sciences and the assistant to Thomas Huxley.

In the year, he professionally took up journalism. In the year, Wells wrote his first artistic work - the novel “Time Machine” about the journey of the inventor to a distant future. Wells is considered the author of many topics that are popular in science fiction of subsequent years. In the year, 10 years before Einstein and Minkovsky, he announced that our reality is a four-dimensional space-time “Time Machine”.

In the year, he predicted war with the use of poisonous gases, aviation and devices like the laser “War of the Worlds”, a little later - “when the sleeper will wake up”, “war in the air”. In the year he described the civilization of the reasonable ants "Kingdom of Ants." The novel “The Liberated World” mentions the Second World War unleashed in the years; There is also an “atomic bomb” that is so named, dumped from the aircraft and based on the splitting of the atom.

In the year, Wells was the first to introduce to science fiction parallel worlds “People as Gods”. Wells also discovered such ideas, later replicated by hundreds of authors as the anti-gravity “first people on the moon”, invisible man, pace of life and much more. However, all these original ideas were not the very end in Well, but rather a technical technique that had a goal to brighten the main, socio-critical side of his works.

So, in the "Time Machine" he warns that the continuation of the irreconcilable class struggle can lead to complete degradation of society. In recent decades of work, Wells completely moved away from science fiction, but his realistic works are much less popular. From the year, Wells was in Fabian society, which advocated caution and gradual in politics, science and public life. B was elected President of the Pen Club.

Herbert Wells was three times in Russia. For the first time a year, then he stayed at the Astoria St. Petersburg Hotel on the Marine Street, for the second time in September, he had a meeting with Lenin. At this time, Wells lived in the apartment of M. Gorky in the profitable house of E. Barsova on Kronverksky Prospekt, about his first visit to the Bolshevik state, Welles wrote the book “Russia in the Smile”.

In it, among other things, he described in detail his meeting with Lenin and the essence of the difference between their positions: “This topic led us to our main disagreement - the disagreement between the evolutionary collectivist and the Marxist, to the question of whether the social revolution is needed with all its extremes, whether it is necessary to completely destroy one economic system before another one can be put into action.

The current capitalist system can become “civilized” and turn into the World collectivist system, while Lenin’s worldview has long been inseparably connected with the provisions of Marxism about the inevitability of the class warfare, the need to overthrow the capitalist system as a preliminary condition for the restructuring of the society, about the dictatorship of the proletariat, etc.

Wells wrote about this meeting: “I confess that I approached Stalin with some suspicion and prejudice. In my mind, the image of a very cautious, focused fanatic, despot, an envious, suspicious monopolis of power was created in my mind. I expected to meet a ruthless, cruel doctrine and self-propelled Georgian, whose spirit never completely broke up from All the vague rumors, all suspicions have ceased to exist forever, after I talked with him for several minutes.Herbert Wells' personal life: Wells lived in London and Riviera, often made lectures and traveled a lot.

He died in London on August 13. At the funeral ceremony, John Boynton Pristley called Wells "a man whose word has introduced light into many dark nooks of life." According to the will, after cremation, two sons, being on White, dispelled the writer's dust over La Channel.