World Classics Library: H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds, the Invisible Man, the First Men in the Moon, the Time Machine - H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was a prolific writer born in Kent in 1866. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature no fewer than four times. He was passionate about politics as well as literature and his output included several nonfiction pieces to go with his array of short stories and novels.