![]() ![]() A case can even be made-indeed, to make it you can draw on Claire Tomalin’s new biography, “ The Young H. G. Like most “first use” claims-the number of words that Shakespeare supposedly used first has decreased as Elizabethan data banks have enlarged-this is probably overstated, but Wells certainly made the word, well, sticky. Lewisham,” as a shorthand for the totality of the activity. ![]() “Every bit of sexual impulse in me has expressed itself.” The case is sometimes even made that Wells invented the word “sex”-that he pioneered its modern use, in his 1900 novel, “Love and Mr. He is also remembered, among Brits with a taste for evergreen gossip, as perhaps the most erotically adventurous man of his generation, the satyr of the socialists. ![]() Wells is remembered today mostly as the author of four visionary science-fiction perennials with premises so simple and strong that they can sustain any amount of retelling: “ The War of the Worlds,” “ The Invisible Man,” “ The Time Machine,” and “ The Island of Doctor Moreau.” Social historians recall Wells as one of the brighter technological optimists and left-wing polemicists of the early part of the twentieth century. ![]()
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